Countries
Estonia, European Union
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
25
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Gambia
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Finnish
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2726
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
924
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1823
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Tere
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
aitäh
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Head ööd
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
Palun
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
Vabandust
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
Head aega
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
ma armastan sind
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Vabandage
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tartu
Wu
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Idamurre
Yue
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
810
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %16.00 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.95 million873.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
1.10 million178.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
eesti keel
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
estonien
chinois
German Name
Estnisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Estonians
Han
Origin
13th century
1250 BC
Language Family
Uralic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
-
Branch
Finnic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Estonian
Standard Chinese
Language Position
221
1
120
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Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
et
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
est
zho
ISO 639 2/B
est
chi
ISO 639 3
est
zho
ISO 639 6
est
zho
Glottocode
esto1258
sini1245
Linguasphere
No data available
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic, Isolating