Countries
Estonia, European Union
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Estonia, Gambia
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
Similar To
Finnish
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Tere
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
aitäh
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
Head ööd
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
Palun
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
Vabandust
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
Head aega
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
ma armastan sind
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
Vabandage
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Tartu
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
  
India, Nepal
  
Dialect 3
Idamurre
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million
  
99+
30.00 million
  
36
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.95 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
eesti keel
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
estonien
  
népalais
  
German Name
Estnisch
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Estonians
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
13th century
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Estonian
  
Nepali
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
et
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
est
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
est
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
est
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
esto1258
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Agglutinative
  
Estonian and Nepali 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 Nepali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Estonian and Nepali language. Estonian word for "Hello" is Tere or Nepali word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (dhanyabad). Find more of such common Estonian Greetings and Nepali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Estonian vs Nepali Difficulty
The Estonian vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Estonian Alphabets and Nepali 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 Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Estonian and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Estonian is 44 weeks while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.