Estonian and Cantonese
Countries
Estonia, European Union
Hong Kong, Macau
National Language
Estonia, Gambia
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Hawaii
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Finnish
Chinese Language
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
你好吗？
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
下午好
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
早上好
I Love You
ma armastan sind
我爱你
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
outside mainland China
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
Hong Kong
Dialect 3
Idamurre
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
Hong Kong
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
eesti keel
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
estonien
Not Available
German Name
Estnisch
Not Available
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Estonians
Not Available
Origin
13th century
17th century
Language Family
Uralic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Not Available
Branch
Finnic
Not Available
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Estonian
Standard Cantonese
Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Macrolanguage
Not Available
ISO 639 1
et
No data available
ISO 639 2/T
est
Not Available
ISO 639 2/B
est
Not Available
ISO 639 3
est
No data available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
esto1258
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Not Available
All Estonian and Cantonese Dialects
Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Estonian and Cantonese dialects. Various dialects of Estonian and Cantonese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Estonian are spoken in different Estonian Speaking Countries whereas Cantonese Dialects are spoken in different Cantonese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Estonian vs Cantonese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Estonian dialects include: Keskmurre, Tartu. Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou , Xiguan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Estonian and Cantonese Speaking population
Estonian and Cantonese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Estonian and Cantonese languages can be compared. The total count of Estonian and Cantonese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Estonian language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Estonian and Cantonese on Estonian vs Cantonese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Estonian and Cantonese Language Codes
Estonian and Cantonese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Estonian and Cantonese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.