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Countries

Countries
Estonia, European Union

Total No. Of Countries
2 13

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
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Alphabets
27 9

Phonology

How Many Vowels
9 6

How Many Consonants
18 8

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
2 1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

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 59

Dialect 2
Tartu

Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia

How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00 61

Dialect 3
Idamurre

Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.

How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00 52

Total No. Of Dialects
8 8

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.10 million 86

Speaking Population
0.03 % 60

Native Speakers
0.95 million 81

Second Language Speakers
1.10 million 61

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
22 20

Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language

Scope
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1
et

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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