Countries
Estonia, European Union
  
Ukraine
  
National Language
Estonia, Gambia
  
Ukraine
  
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
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
  
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian 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.
  
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
  
Similar To
Finnish
  
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Tere
  
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
aitäh
  
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
  
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Good Night
Head ööd
  
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
  
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
  
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
  
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Please
Palun
  
будь ласк
  
Sorry
Vabandust
  
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Bye
Head aega
  
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
I Love You
ma armastan sind
  
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Vabandage
  
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
  
Podillian
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
Dialect 2
Tartu
  
Volynian
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
  
Rivne, Volyn
  
Dialect 3
Idamurre
  
Steppe
  
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million
  
99+
39.00 million
  
32
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.95 million
  
99+
39.00 million
  
25
Native Name
eesti keel
  
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
  
Not Available
  
French Name
estonien
  
ukrainien
  
German Name
Estnisch
  
Ukrainisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Ethnicity
Estonians
  
Ukrainians
  
Origin
13th century
  
1561
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Standard Forms
Estonian
  
Modern Ukrainian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
  
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
et
  
uk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
est
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 2/B
est
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 3
est
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
esto1258
  
ukra1253
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Estonian and Ukrainian 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 Ukrainian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Estonian and Ukrainian language. Estonian word for "Hello" is Tere or Ukrainian word for "Thank You" is Дякую (Dyakuyu). Find more of such common Estonian Greetings and Ukrainian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Estonian vs Ukrainian Difficulty
The Estonian vs Ukrainian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Estonian Alphabets and Ukrainian 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 Ukrainian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Estonian and Ukrainian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Estonian is 44 weeks while to learn Ukrainian time required is 44 weeks.