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Countries

Countries

Estonia, European Union
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Total No. Of Countries

27
0 46
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National Language

Estonia, Gambia
Germany

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America

Speaking Continents

Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Regulated By

Institute of the Estonian Language
Council for German Orthography

Interesting Facts

  • Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
  • Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.

Similar To

Finnish
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages

Derived From

-
Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2726
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

910
0 32
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How Many Consonants

189
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

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 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Tere
hallo

Thank You

aitäh
Danke

How Are You?

kuidas sul läheb
Wie geht es dir?

Good Night

Head ööd
gute Nacht

Good Evening

Tere õhtust
guten Abend

Good Afternoon

Tere päevast
guten Tag

Good Morning

Tere hommikust
guten Morgen

Please

Palun
bitte

Sorry

Vabandust
Verzeihung

Bye

Head aega
Tschüs

I Love You

ma armastan sind
Ich liebe dich

Excuse Me

Vabandage
Entschuldigung

Dialects

Dialect 1

Keskmurre
Swiss German

Where They Speak

Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
Switzerland

How Many People Speak

1,300,000.004,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Tartu
Swabian German

Where They Speak

Georgia, South Estonia
Germany

How Many People Speak

1,300,000.00820,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Idamurre
Texas German

Where They Speak

France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
Texas

How Many People Speak

1,300,000.006,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

828
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

1.10 million229.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.03 %1.39 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.95 million101.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.10 million128.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

eesti keel
Deutsch

Alternative Names

Eesti keel
Deutsch, Tedesco

French Name

estonien
allemand

German Name

Estnisch
Deutsch

Pronunciation

[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

Ethnicity

Estonians
Germans

History

Origin

13th century
6th Century AD

Language Family

Uralic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Finno-Ugric
Germanic

Branch

Finnic
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Estonian
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Language Position

229
1 120
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Signed Forms

Estonian Sign Language
Signed German

Scope

Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

et
de

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

est
deu

ISO 639 2/B

est
ger

ISO 639 3

est
deu

ISO 639 6

est
deus

Glottocode

esto1258
high1287, uppe1397

Linguasphere

No data available
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Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic

Estonian and German Alphabets

Estonian and German Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Estonian and German. In Estonian Alphabets there are 27 letters while in German Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Estonian and German languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Estonian and German 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 German greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Estonian and German are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Estonian and German Speaking population

Estonian and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Estonian and German languages can be compared. The total count of Estonian and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Estonian language is 0.03 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. 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 German on Estonian vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Estonian and German Language Codes

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