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