Countries
Estonia, European Union
Burma
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Gambia
Burundi, Gambia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
Similar To
Finnish
Kinyarwanda Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2721
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
95
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1819
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Tere
Bwakeye
Thank You
aitäh
Urakoze
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
Urakomeye?
Good Night
Head ööd
Ijoro ryiza
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
Mwiriwe
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
Mwiriwe
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
Mwaramutse
Please
Palun
Ndagusavye
Sorry
Vabandust
Ndasubiza
Bye
Head aega
N’agasaga
I Love You
ma armastan sind
Ndi waramutse
Excuse Me
Vabandage
Ndasaba
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Rwanda-Rundi
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tartu
Ha
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00990,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Idamurre
Shubi
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00153,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
86
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million8.80 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.03 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.95 million8.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.10 million12.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
eesti keel
íkiRǔndi
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Rundi, Urundi
French Name
estonien
rundi
German Name
Estnisch
Kirundi
Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[kɪˈrʊndi]
Ethnicity
Estonians
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Origin
13th century
1500
Language Family
Uralic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
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Branch
Finnic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Estonian
Kirundi
Language Position
2286
1
120
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Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Kirundi Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
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ISO 639 1
et
rn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
est
run
ISO 639 2/B
est
run
ISO 639 3
est
run
ISO 639 6
est
run
Glottocode
esto1258
rund1242
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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