Countries
Estonia, European Union
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Gambia
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
Similar To
Finnish
Dutch Language
Derived From
-
Dutch Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2732
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
915
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1817
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Tere
hallo
Thank You
aitäh
Dankie
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
Hoe gaan dit
Good Night
Head ööd
goeie nag
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
Goeienaand
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
Goeie middag
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
goeie more
Please
Palun
asseblief
Sorry
Vabandust
jammer
Bye
Head aega
Totsiens
I Love You
ma armastan sind
Ek het jou lief
Excuse Me
Vabandage
Verskoon my
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Kaapse Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
-
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.007,700,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Tartu
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
-
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.007,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Idamurre
Baster Afrikaans
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
Namibia
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
83
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million19.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.95 million7.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.10 million10.30 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
eesti keel
Afrikaans
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Cape Dutch
French Name
estonien
afrikaans
German Name
Estnisch
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Ethnicity
Estonians
Afrikaners
Origin
13th century
17th Century
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Germanic
Branch
Finnic
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Forms
Estonian
Standard Afrikaans
Language Position
2223
1
120
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Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
et
af
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
est
afr
ISO 639 2/B
est
afr
ISO 639 3
est
afr
ISO 639 6
est
afrs
Glottocode
esto1258
afri1274
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic