Countries
Estonia, European Union
  
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
  
National Language
Estonia, Gambia
  
Slovakia, Vojvodina, 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
  
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
  
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
  
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
  
Similar To
Finnish
  
Czech Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Czech-Slovak Language
  
Alphabets in
Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Slovak-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Tere
  
Ahoj
  
Thank You
aitäh
  
Ďakujem vám
  
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
  
Ako sa máte?
  
Good Night
Head ööd
  
Dobrú noc
  
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
  
Dobrý večer
  
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
  
Dobré popoludnie
  
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
  
Dobré ráno
  
Please
Palun
  
Prosím
  
Sorry
Vabandust
  
Pardón!
  
Bye
Head aega
  
Dovidenia
  
I Love You
ma armastan sind
  
Ľúbim Ťa
  
Excuse Me
Vabandage
  
Prepáčte!
  
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
  
Eastern Slovak
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
  
Dialect 2
Tartu
  
Central Slovak
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
  
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
  
Dialect 3
Idamurre
  
Western Slovak
  
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
  
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million
  
99+
5.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.95 million
  
99+
5.20 million
  
99+
Native Name
eesti keel
  
slovenčina
  
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
  
Slovakian, Slovencina
  
French Name
estonien
  
slovaque
  
German Name
Estnisch
  
Slowakisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Estonians
  
Slovaks
  
Origin
13th century
  
6th Century
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Estonian
  
Slovak
  
Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
et
  
sk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
est
  
slk
  
ISO 639 2/B
est
  
slo
  
ISO 639 3
est
  
slk
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
esto1258
  
slov1269
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-db
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Synthetic
  
Estonian and Slovak 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 Slovak greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Estonian and Slovak language. Estonian word for "Hello" is Tere or Slovak word for "Thank You" is Ďakujem vám. Find more of such common Estonian Greetings and Slovak Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Estonian vs Slovak Difficulty
The Estonian vs Slovak difficulty level basically depends on the number of Estonian Alphabets and Slovak 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 Slovak are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Estonian and Slovak, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Estonian is 44 weeks while to learn Slovak time required is 44 weeks.