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
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
1,500,000.00
  
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How Many People Speak?
1.10 million
  
99+
8.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.95 million
  
99+
8.70 million
  
99+
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
  
Language Forms
  
  
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 1
et
  
sr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
est
  
srp
  
ISO 639 2/B
est
  
srp
  
ISO 639 3
est
  
srp
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
esto1258
  
serb1264
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
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.