Countries
Estonia, European Union
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Gambia
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Finnish
Armenian
Derived From
-
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2724
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
97
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1817
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, 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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Tere
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
aitäh
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
Head ööd
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
Palun
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
Vabandust
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Bye
Head aega
αντίο (antío)
I Love You
ma armastan sind
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
Vabandage
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
Greece
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.002,800.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tartu
Griko
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
Italy
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0050,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Idamurre
Mariupol
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
825
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million13.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.03 %0.18 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.95 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.10 million13.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
eesti keel
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
estonien
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Estnisch
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
Estonians
Greeks or Hellenes
Origin
13th century
1500 BC
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Hellenic
Branch
Finnic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
Estonian
Modern Greek
Language Position
2274
1
120
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Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Greek Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
et
el
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
est
ell
ISO 639 2/B
est
gre
ISO 639 3
est
ell
ISO 639 6
est
ells
Glottocode
esto1258
gree1276
Linguasphere
No data available
56-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic