Countries
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara
  
Estonia, European Union
  
National Language
Spain
  
Estonia, Gambia
  
Second Language
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom
  
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
  
Institute of the Estonian Language
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
- Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic 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
French Language
  
Finnish
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Spanish-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
hola
  
Tere
  
Thank You
Gracias
  
aitäh
  
How Are You?
Cómo estás?
  
kuidas sul läheb
  
Good Night
Buenas Noches
  
Head ööd
  
Good Evening
Bonne soirée
  
Tere õhtust
  
Good Afternoon
Buenas Tardes
  
Tere päevast
  
Good Morning
Buenos Días
  
Tere hommikust
  
Please
Por Favor
  
Palun
  
Sorry
triste
  
Vabandust
  
Bye
adiós
  
Head aega
  
I Love You
Te Quiero
  
ma armastan sind
  
Excuse Me
Discúlpeme
  
Vabandage
  
Dialect 1
Mexican Spanish
  
Keskmurre
  
Where They Speak
Mexico
  
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
How Many People Speak
105,000,000.00
  
5
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Cuban Spanish
  
Tartu
  
Where They Speak
Cuba
  
Georgia, South Estonia
  
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00
  
8
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Puerto Rican Spanish
  
Idamurre
  
Where They Speak
Puerto Rico
  
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
How Many People Speak
3,900,000.00
  
9
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
489.00 million
  
3
1.10 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
410.00 million
  
2
0.95 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
89.50 million
  
9
Not Available
  
Native Name
Español
  
eesti keel
  
Alternative Names
Castellano, Castilian, Español
  
Eesti keel
  
French Name
espagnol; castillan
  
estonien
  
German Name
Spanisch
  
Estnisch
  
Pronunciation
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Estonians
  
Origin
210 BC
  
13th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Spanish and Spanish
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Spanish
  
Estonian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Spanish
  
Estonian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
es
  
et
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
spa
  
est
  
ISO 639 2/B
spa
  
est
  
ISO 639 3
spa
  
est
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1288
  
esto1258
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-b
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative