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Countries

Countries

Estonia, European Union
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

233
0 46
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National Language

Estonia, Gambia
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore

Speaking Continents

Europe
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America

Minority Language

Denmark, Russia, Sweden
South Africa

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.
  • Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
  • English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.

Similar To

Finnish
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and German Languages

Derived From

-
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2726
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

95
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1821
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

27
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks6 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Tere
Hello

Thank You

aitäh
Thank you

How Are You?

kuidas sul läheb
How are you?

Good Night

Head ööd
Good Night

Good Evening

Tere õhtust
Good Evening

Good Afternoon

Tere päevast
Good Afternoon

Good Morning

Tere hommikust
Good Morning

Please

Palun
Please

Sorry

Vabandust
Sorry

Bye

Head aega
Bye

I Love You

ma armastan sind
I love you

Excuse Me

Vabandage
Excuse Me

Dialects

Dialect 1

Keskmurre
American English

Where They Speak

Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
United States of America

How Many People Speak

1,300,000.00225,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Tartu
Hiberno-English

Where They Speak

Georgia, South Estonia
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

1,300,000.004,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Idamurre
Welsh English

Where They Speak

France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

1,300,000.002,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

8188
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

1.10 million1,200.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.03 %5.43 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.95 million400.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.10 million400.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

eesti keel
English

Alternative Names

Eesti keel
English

French Name

estonien
anglais

German Name

Estnisch
Englisch

Pronunciation

[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/

Ethnicity

Estonians
English people

History

Origin

13th century
5th Century AD

Language Family

Uralic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Finno-Ugric
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Branch

Finnic
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Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English

Standard Forms

Estonian
Standard English

Language Position

223
1 120
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Signed Forms

Estonian Sign Language
Signed English

Scope

Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

et
en

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

est
eng

ISO 639 2/B

est
eng

ISO 639 3

est
eng

ISO 639 6

est
engs

Glottocode

esto1258
stan1293

Linguasphere

No data available
52-ABA

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic

Estonian and English Alphabets

Estonian and English Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Estonian and English. In Estonian Alphabets there are 27 letters while in English Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Estonian and English languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Estonian and English languages. The Estonian phonology consist Estonian vowels and Estonian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Estonian greetings vs English greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Estonian and English are Most Spoken Languages.

All Estonian and English 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 English dialects. Various dialects of Estonian and English language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Estonian are spoken in different Estonian Speaking Countries whereas English Dialects are spoken in different English speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Estonian vs English Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Estonian dialects include: Keskmurre, Tartu. English dialects include: American English , Hiberno-English. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Estonian and English Speaking population

Estonian and English speaking population is one of the factors based on which Estonian and English languages can be compared. The total count of Estonian and English Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Estonian language is 0.03 % whereas the percentage of people speaking English language is 5.43 %. 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 English on Estonian vs English where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Estonian and English Language Codes

Estonian and English language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Estonian and English Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.