Countries
Estonia, European Union
European Union, Finland
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Gambia
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
Similar To
Finnish
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2729
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
98
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1813
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
24
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Tere
Moi
Thank You
aitäh
Kiitos
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
Mitä kuuluu?
Good Night
Head ööd
hyvää yötä
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
Hyvää iltaa
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
Hyvää iltapäivää
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
Hyvää huomenta
Please
Palun
haluta
Sorry
Vabandust
Anteeksi
Bye
Head aega
Heippa
I Love You
ma armastan sind
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
Vabandage
Anteeksi
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
Finland
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.005,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tartu
Rauma
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
Finland, Rauma
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.005,600,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Idamurre
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
Finland, Sweden
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0060,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
821
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.10 million5.40 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.03 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.95 million5.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.10 million0.01 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
eesti keel
suomi / suomen kieli
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Suomi
French Name
estonien
finnois
German Name
Estnisch
Finnisch
Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[ˈsuomi]
Ethnicity
Estonians
ethnic Finns
Origin
13th century
1543
Language Family
Uralic Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Finno-Ugric
Branch
Finnic
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Estonian
standard Finnish
Language Position
2222
1
120
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Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Signed Finnish
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
et
fi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
est
fin
ISO 639 2/B
est
fin
ISO 639 3
est
fin
ISO 639 6
est
fin
Glottocode
esto1258
finn1318
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative, Synthetic