Countries
Estonia, European Union
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Gambia
Malta
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
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
National Council for the Maltese Language
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
Similar To
Finnish
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
-
Roman Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2730
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
96
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1824
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
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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Hello
Tere
Ħello
Thank You
aitäh
Grazzi
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
Kif int?
Good Night
Head ööd
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
Palun
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
Vabandust
Skużani!
Bye
Head aega
Ċaw
I Love You
ma armastan sind
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
Vabandage
Skużi!
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Qormi
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
Malta
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00520,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tartu
Żejtun
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
Malta
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Idamurre
Not Present
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
-
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
82
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million0.52 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.95 million0.52 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.10 million0.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
eesti keel
Malti
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Malti
French Name
estonien
maltais
German Name
Estnisch
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
Estonians
Maltese
Origin
13th century
c. 1470
Language Family
Uralic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Semitic
Branch
Finnic
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Estonian
Maltese
Language Position
2225
1
120
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Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
et
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
est
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
est
mlt
ISO 639 3
est
mlt
ISO 639 6
est
mlt
Glottocode
esto1258
malt1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Synthetic