Countries
Estonia, European Union
Belarus, Poland
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Gambia
Belarus, Gambia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Poland
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 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.
- Since 1918, Belarusian has been the official language of Belarus.
- Belarusian include many loanwords from Polish language.
Similar To
Finnish
Russian and Ukrainian
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2748
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
96
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1839
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Tere
dobry dzień
Thank You
aitäh
Dziakuj
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
Jak vy ?
Good Night
Head ööd
Dabranač
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
Dobry viečar
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
dobry dzień
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
Dobraj ranicy
Please
Palun
Kali laska
Sorry
Vabandust
Vybačajcie
Bye
Head aega
da pabačennia
I Love You
ma armastan sind
JA liubliu ciabie
Excuse Me
Vabandage
Vybačajcie
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
North-Eastern Belarusian
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
North-East Belarus
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.007,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tartu
South-Western Belarusian
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
South-West Belarus
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.007,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Idamurre
Middle Belarusian
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
Middle Belarus
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.007,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
83
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million9.63 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.95 million7.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.10 million5.89 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
eesti keel
Беларуская мова (Bielaruskaja mova)
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Belarusan, Belorussian, Bielorussian, Byelorussian, White Russian, White Ruthenian
French Name
estonien
biélorusse
German Name
Estnisch
Weißrussisch
Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[bʲɛlaˈruskʲi]
Ethnicity
Estonians
Belarusians
Origin
13th century
18th century
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Slavic
Branch
Finnic
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Estonian
Belarusian
Language Position
2279
1
120
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Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Belarusian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
et
be
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
est
bel
ISO 639 2/B
est
bel
ISO 639 3
est
bel
ISO 639 6
est
bel
Glottocode
esto1258
bela1254
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-eb < 53-AAA-e (varieties: 53-AAA-eba to 53-AAA-ebg)
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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