Countries
Estonia, European Union
  
European Union, Poland
  
National Language
Estonia, Gambia
  
Poland
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
  
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
  
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  
- Polish Language has many loanwords from Russian, Czech, French, Italian, Hebrew and German Languages.
- The earliest writings found in polish language was list of persons and place names, is dated to 1136.
  
Similar To
Finnish
  
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Polish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Tere
  
cześć
  
Thank You
aitäh
  
dziękuję
  
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
  
Jak się masz?
  
Good Night
Head ööd
  
dobranoc
  
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
  
dobry wieczór
  
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
  
dzień dobry
  
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
  
Dzień dobry
  
Please
Palun
  
proszę
  
Sorry
Vabandust
  
Przepraszam
  
Bye
Head aega
  
do widzenia
  
I Love You
ma armastan sind
  
kocham Cię
  
Excuse Me
Vabandage
  
przepraszam
  
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
  
Kashubian
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
Poland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
108,000.00
  
99+
Dialect 2
Tartu
  
Masovian
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
  
Poland
  
Dialect 3
Idamurre
  
Silesian
  
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
Czech Republic, Poland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million
  
99+
40.00 million
  
31
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.95 million
  
99+
40.00 million
  
24
Native Name
eesti keel
  
Polski
  
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
  
Polnisch, Polski
  
French Name
estonien
  
polonais
  
German Name
Estnisch
  
Polnisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈpɔlski]
  
Ethnicity
Estonians
  
Poles
  
Origin
13th century
  
1270
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Polish and Middle Polish
  
Standard Forms
Estonian
  
Polish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
  
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
et
  
pl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
est
  
pol
  
ISO 639 2/B
est
  
pol
  
ISO 639 3
est
  
pol
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
pols
  
Glottocode
esto1258
  
poli1260
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-cc
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Estonian and Polish 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 Polish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Estonian and Polish language. Estonian word for "Hello" is Tere or Polish word for "Thank You" is dziękuję. Find more of such common Estonian Greetings and Polish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Estonian vs Polish Difficulty
The Estonian vs Polish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Estonian Alphabets and Polish 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 Polish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Estonian and Polish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Estonian is 44 weeks while to learn Polish time required is 44 weeks.