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Estonian vs Russian


Russian vs Estonian


Countries

Countries
Estonia, European Union  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
4  
11

National Language
Estonia, Gambia  
Russia  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Afganistan  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia, Europe  

Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan  

Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences  

Interesting Facts
  • Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
  • Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  
  • In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
  • In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  

Similar To
Finnish  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages  

Derived From
Not Available  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
27  
9
33  
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
9  
6
10  
7

How Many Consonants
18  
8
21  
11

Scripts
Latin  
Cyrillic  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
Tere  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)  

Thank You
aitäh  
спасибо(spasibo)  

How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)  

Good Night
Head ööd  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)  

Good Evening
Tere õhtust  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)  

Good Afternoon
Tere päevast  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')  

Good Morning
Tere hommikust  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)  

Please
Palun  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)  

Sorry
Vabandust  
Извините(Izvinite)  

Bye
Head aega  
до свидания(do svidaniya)  

I Love You
ma armastan sind  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)  

Excuse Me
Vabandage  
извините(izvinite)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Keskmurre  
Doukhobor Russian  

Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
30,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Tartu  
Olonets  

Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia  
Olonets  

Dialect 3
Idamurre  
Novgorod  

Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.  
Novgorod  

Total No. Of Dialects
8  
8
13  
13

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.10 million  
99+
276.00 million  
6

Speaking Population
Not Available  
2.33 %  
9

Native Speakers
0.95 million  
99+
166.00 million  
8

Second Language Speakers
Not Available  
110.00 million  
7

Native Name
eesti keel  
Русский  

Alternative Names
Eesti keel  
Russki  

French Name
estonien  
russe  

German Name
Estnisch  
Russisch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]  

Ethnicity
Estonians  
Russians  

History

Origin
13th century  
1000 AD  

Language Family
Uralic Family  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family  

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric  
Slavic  

Branch
Finnic  
Eastern  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old East Slavic  

Standard Forms
Estonian  
Standard Russian  

Language Position
Not Available  
7  
7

Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language  
Signed Russian  

Scope
Macrolanguage  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
et  
ru  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
est  
rus  

ISO 639 2/B
est  
rus  

ISO 639 3
est  
rus  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
esto1258  
russ1263  

Linguasphere
No data available  
53-AAA-ea  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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Estonian and Russian Language History

Comparison of Estonian vs Russian language history gives us differences between origin of Estonian and Russian language. History of Estonian language states that this language originated in 13th century whereas history of Russian language states that this language originated in 1000 AD. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Estonian and Russian Language History.

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Estonian and Russian 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 Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Estonian and Russian language. Estonian word for "Hello" is Tere or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Estonian Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Estonian vs Russian Difficulty

The Estonian vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Estonian Alphabets and Russian 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 Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Estonian and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Estonian is 44 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.

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