Countries
Estonia, European Union
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Gambia
Ethiopia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
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Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
Similar To
Finnish
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2733
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
97
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1831
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Ethiopic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Tere
Selam
Thank You
aitäh
amesege'nallo'
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
Dehina newot?
Good Night
Head ööd
Dehna dur
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
melkam meshe't
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
i'ndemin walu
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
i'ndemin adäru
Please
Palun
i'bakwon
Sorry
Vabandust
aznallehu
Bye
Head aega
tschao
I Love You
ma armastan sind
afekirishalehu
Excuse Me
Vabandage
yiqirta
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Gondar
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
Gondar
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0022,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tartu
Gojjami
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Idamurre
Showa
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0022,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
85
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.10 million18.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.03 %0.37 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.95 million25.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
1.10 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
eesti keel
አማርኛ
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
French Name
estonien
amharique
German Name
Estnisch
Amharisch
Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[amarɨɲɲa]
Ethnicity
Estonians
Amharas
Origin
13th century
13th century
Language Family
Uralic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Semitic
Branch
Finnic
Ethiopic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Ge'ez
Standard Forms
Estonian
Amharic
Language Position
2255
1
120
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Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Signed Amharic
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
et
am
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
est
amh
ISO 639 2/B
est
amh
ISO 639 3
est
amh
ISO 639 6
est
amh
Glottocode
esto1258
amha1245
Linguasphere
No data available
12-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional