Countries
European Union, Slovenia
  
Estonia, European Union
  
National Language
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
  
Estonia, Gambia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy
  
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
  
Institute of the Estonian Language
  
Interesting Facts
- The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
  
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  
Similar To
Serbo-Croatian
  
Finnish
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Slovene-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
Halo
  
Tere
  
Thank You
Hvala
  
aitäh
  
How Are You?
Kako se imate?
  
kuidas sul läheb
  
Good Night
Lahko noč
  
Head ööd
  
Good Evening
Dober večer
  
Tere õhtust
  
Good Afternoon
Dober dan
  
Tere päevast
  
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
  
Tere hommikust
  
Please
Prosim
  
Palun
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
Vabandust
  
Bye
Nasvidenje
  
Head aega
  
I Love You
Ljubim te
  
ma armastan sind
  
Excuse Me
Oprostite
  
Vabandage
  
Dialect 1
Prekmurje Slovene
  
Keskmurre
  
Where They Speak
Hungary, Slovenia
  
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Resian
  
Tartu
  
Where They Speak
Italy
  
Georgia, South Estonia
  
Dialect 3
Styrian
  
Idamurre
  
Where They Speak
Slovenia
  
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
How Many People Speak?
2.50 million
  
99+
1.10 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
2.50 million
  
99+
0.95 million
  
99+
Native Name
Not available
  
eesti keel
  
Alternative Names
Slovenian, Slovenscina
  
Eesti keel
  
French Name
slovène
  
estonien
  
German Name
Slowenisch
  
Estnisch
  
Pronunciation
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Slovenes
  
Estonians
  
Origin
972-1093
  
13th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Slovene
  
Estonian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Estonian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
sl
  
et
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
slv
  
est
  
ISO 639 2/B
slv
  
est
  
ISO 639 3
slv
  
est
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
slov1268
  
esto1258
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-f
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Agglutinative
  
Slovene 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 Slovene and Estonian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Slovene and Estonian language. Slovene word for "Hello" is Halo or Estonian word for "Thank You" is aitäh. Find more of such common Slovene Greetings and Estonian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Slovene vs Estonian Difficulty
The Slovene vs Estonian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Slovene 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 Slovene and Estonian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Slovene and Estonian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Slovene is 44 weeks while to learn Estonian time required is 44 weeks.