Countries
Estonia, European Union
  
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
National Language
Estonia, Gambia
  
Malaysia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
Thailand
  
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
  
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  
Similar To
Finnish
  
Indonesian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Tamil Language
  
Alphabets in
Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Tere
  
Hai
  
Thank You
aitäh
  
terima kasih
  
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
  
Apa khabar?
  
Good Night
Head ööd
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
  
Selamat Petang
  
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
  
Selamat tengah hari
  
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
  
Selamat pagi
  
Please
Palun
  
sila
  
Sorry
Vabandust
  
maaf
  
Bye
Head aega
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
ma armastan sind
  
Saya sayang kamu
  
Excuse Me
Vabandage
  
Maafkan saya
  
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
  
Bengkulu
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
Tartu
  
Pekal
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Idamurre
  
Musi
  
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,100,000.00
  
11
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million
  
99+
175.00 million
  
10
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.95 million
  
99+
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
98.00 million
  
8
Native Name
eesti keel
  
Bahasa melayu
  
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
  
Not Available
  
French Name
estonien
  
malais
  
German Name
Estnisch
  
Malaiisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Ethnicity
Estonians
  
Not Available
  
Origin
13th century
  
c. 683 AD
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Standard Forms
Estonian
  
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
  
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
et
  
ms
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
est
  
msa
  
ISO 639 2/B
est
  
may
  
ISO 639 3
est
  
zsm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
esto1258
  
stan1306
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Agglutinative
  
Estonian and Malaysian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Estonian and Malaysian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Estonian and Malaysian language. Estonian word for "Hello" is Tere or Malaysian word for "Thank You" is terima kasih. Find more of such common Estonian Greetings and Malaysian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Estonian vs Malaysian Difficulty
The Estonian vs Malaysian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Estonian Alphabets and Malaysian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Estonian and Malaysian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Estonian and Malaysian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Estonian is 44 weeks while to learn Malaysian time required is 36 weeks.