Countries
Estonia, European Union
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Gambia
France, Spain
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
Euskaltzaindia, 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.
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
Similar To
Finnish
Spanish
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2727
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
95
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1821
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Tere
Kaixo
Thank You
aitäh
Eskerrik asko
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
Zer moduz?
Good Night
Head ööd
Gabon
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
Arratsalde on
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
Arratsalde on
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
Egun on
Please
Palun
Mesedez
Sorry
Vabandust
Barkatu
Bye
Head aega
Agur
I Love You
ma armastan sind
Maite zaitut
Excuse Me
Vabandage
Barkatu
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Navarro-Lapurdian
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
France
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0068,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tartu
Souletin
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
France, Soule, Spain
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.008,700.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Idamurre
Biscayan
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
Spain
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00750,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
86
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million7.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.03 %0.12 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.95 million7.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
1.10 million0.70 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
eesti keel
Euskara
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
French Name
estonien
basque
German Name
Estnisch
Baskisch
Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[bɑːsk]
Ethnicity
Estonians
Basque people
Origin
13th century
c. 1000
Language Family
Uralic Family
Vasconic Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
-
Branch
Finnic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
Standard Forms
Estonian
Basque
Language Position
2230
1
120
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Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Basque Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
-
ISO 639 1
et
eu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
est
eus
ISO 639 2/B
est
baq
ISO 639 3
est
eus
ISO 639 6
est
eus
Glottocode
esto1258
basq1248
Linguasphere
No data available
40-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative