Countries
Estonia, European Union
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
National Language
Estonia, Gambia
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
Similar To
Finnish
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Tere
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
aitäh
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
Head ööd
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Please
Palun
Молим (Molim)
Sorry
Vabandust
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Bye
Head aega
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
I Love You
ma armastan sind
Волим те (Volim te)
Excuse Me
Vabandage
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Prizren-Timok
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
Southeastern Serbia
Dialect 2
Tartu
Smederevo–Vršac
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
Serbia
Dialect 3
Idamurre
Torlakian
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
Native Name
eesti keel
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Montenegrin
French Name
estonien
serbe
German Name
Estnisch
Serbisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[sr̩̂pskiː]
Ethnicity
Estonians
Serbs
Origin
13th century
11th Century
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Not Available
Branch
Finnic
Not Available
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Estonian
Standard Serbian
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
esto1258
serb1264
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-g
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Not Available
Estonian and Serbian 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 Serbian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Estonian and Serbian language. Estonian word for "Hello" is Tere or Serbian word for "Thank You" is Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo). Find more of such common Estonian Greetings and Serbian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Estonian vs Serbian Difficulty
The Estonian vs Serbian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Estonian Alphabets and Serbian 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 Serbian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Estonian and Serbian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Estonian is 44 weeks while to learn Serbian time required is 44 weeks.