About Estonian Language | Estonian | Alphabets in Estonian

Countries

Estonia, European Union

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 13 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Estonia, Gambia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe

Minority Language

Denmark, Russia, Sweden

Regulated By

Institute of the Estonian 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.

Similar To

Finnish

Derived From

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 9 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 6 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 8 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 1 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks

Rank: 17 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

Tere

Thank You

aitäh

How Are You?

kuidas sul läheb

Good Night

Head ööd

Good Evening

Tere õhtust

Good Afternoon

Tere päevast

Good Morning

Tere hommikust

Please

Palun

Sorry

Vabandust

Bye

Head aega

I Love You

ma armastan sind

Excuse Me

Vabandage

Dialects

Dialect 1

Keskmurre

Where They Speak

Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia

How Many People Speak

1,300,000.00

Rank: 59 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Tartu

Where They Speak

Georgia, South Estonia

How Many People Speak

1,300,000.00

Rank: 61 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Idamurre

Where They Speak

France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.

How Many People Speak

1,300,000.00

Rank: 52 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 8 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

1.10 million

Rank: 86 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.03 %

Rank: 60 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

0.95 million

Rank: 81 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

1.10 million

Rank: 61 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

eesti keel

Alternative Names

Eesti keel

French Name

estonien

German Name

Estnisch

Pronunciation

[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]

Ethnicity

Estonians

History

Origin

13th century

Language Family

Uralic Family

Subgroup

Finno-Ugric

Branch

Finnic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Estonian

Language Position

Rank: 20 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Estonian Sign Language

Scope

Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

est

ISO 639 2/B

est

ISO 639 3

est

ISO 639 6

est

Glottocode

esto1258

Linguasphere

No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative

Know Alphabets in Estonian

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Estonian Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Estonian Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Estonian. Estonian phonology gives Estonian vowels and Estonian consonants. There are 9 vowels and 18 consonants in Estonian language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Estonian is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Estonian language is given in detail in this section.

All Estonian countries

Want to explore all Estonian countries? About Estonian language serves you with all Estonian Speaking Countries. Countries that use Estonian as official language are called as Estonian countries.

Countries that use Estonian as their National Language are: Estonia, Gambia.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Estonian as second language are: Estonian is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Estonian greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Estonian Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Estonian language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Estonian language.Learn Estonian greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: Tere
Thank you: aitäh
Good Morning: Tere hommikust
Good Evening: Tere õhtust
Good Afternoon: Tere päevast

All Estonian Language Codes

Get to know all Estonian language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Estonian Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.