Countries
Estonia, European Union
European Union, Latvia
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Gambia
Latvia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
Latvian State Language Center
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
- The first written form of Latvian dates from 16th century was found in religious texts.
- The old latvian language was based on the a Gothic script.
Similar To
Finnish
Lithuanian Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2733
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
99
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1824
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Tere
Sveiki
Thank You
aitäh
Paldies
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
Kā jums klājas?
Good Night
Head ööd
Ar labunakti
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
Labvakar
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
Labdien
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
Labrīt
Please
Palun
lūdzu
Sorry
Vabandust
Piedodiet!
Bye
Head aega
Uz redzēšanos
I Love You
ma armastan sind
Es tevi mīlu
Excuse Me
Vabandage
Piedodiet!
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Livonian
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
Latvia
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tartu
Middle Latvian
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
Latvia
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.002,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Idamurre
High Latvian
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
France, Latvia
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
83
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million1.75 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.03 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.95 million1.75 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.10 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
eesti keel
latviešu valoda
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Lettish
French Name
estonien
letton
German Name
Estnisch
Lettisch
Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[ˈlætviən]
Ethnicity
Estonians
Latvians or Letts
Origin
13th century
1530
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Baltic
Branch
Finnic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Estonian
Latvian
Language Position
229
1
120
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Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Latvian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
et
lv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
est
lav
ISO 639 2/B
est
lav
ISO 639 3
est
lav
ISO 639 6
est
lav
Glottocode
esto1258
latv1249
Linguasphere
No data available
54-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Synthetic