Countries
Estonia, European Union
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Gambia
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Finnish
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2733
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
910
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1821
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
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
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
aitäh
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Head ööd
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
Palun
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
Vabandust
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Head aega
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
ma armastan sind
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Vabandage
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tartu
Olonets
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
Olonets
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Idamurre
Novgorod
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
813
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.10 million276.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.03 %2.33 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.95 million166.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.10 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
eesti keel
Русский
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Russki
French Name
estonien
russe
German Name
Estnisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Estonians
Russians
Origin
13th century
1000 AD
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Slavic
Branch
Finnic
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Estonian
Standard Russian
Language Position
227
1
120
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Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
et
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
est
rus
ISO 639 2/B
est
rus
ISO 639 3
est
rus
ISO 639 6
est
rus
Glottocode
esto1258
russ1263
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic