Countries
Estonia, European Union
Georgia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Gambia
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
Cabinet of Georgia
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
Similar To
Finnish
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Derived From
-
Anatolian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2733
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
95
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1828
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Georgian script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Thank You
aitäh
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Good Night
Head ööd
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Please
Palun
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Sorry
Vabandust
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Bye
Head aega
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
I Love You
ma armastan sind
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Excuse Me
Vabandage
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Judaeo-Georgian
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tartu
Kartlian
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
Kartli
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Idamurre
Pshavian
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
Pshavi
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.004,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
820
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.10 million4.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.03 %0.64 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.95 million4.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
1.10 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
eesti keel
ქართული ენა
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
French Name
estonien
géorgien
German Name
Estnisch
Georgisch
Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
Ethnicity
Estonians
Georgians
Origin
13th century
5th Century
Language Family
Uralic Family
Kartvelian Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Southern
Branch
Finnic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Standard Forms
Estonian
Modern Georgian
Language Position
22120
1
120
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Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Georgian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
-
ISO 639 1
et
ka
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
est
kat
ISO 639 2/B
est
geo
ISO 639 3
est
kat
ISO 639 6
est
kat
Glottocode
esto1258
nucl1302
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative, Synthetic