Countries
Estonia, European Union
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Gambia
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Finnish
Munda Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2730
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
96
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1821
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
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
Henda ho
Thank You
aitäh
Adi Johar
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
Head ööd
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
संध्यायान
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
Boge Setak’
Please
Palun
দয়া করে
Sorry
Vabandust
দুঃখিত
Bye
Head aega
Hariau
I Love You
ma armastan sind
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Excuse Me
Vabandage
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Mahali
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
India
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tartu
Not present
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
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How Many People Speak
1,300,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Idamurre
Not present
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
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How Many People Speak
1,300,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
81
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million6.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.03 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.95 million6.30 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.10 million6.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
eesti keel
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
estonien
santal
German Name
Estnisch
Santali
Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[sɑnˈtɑli]
Ethnicity
Estonians
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
13th century
20th century
Language Family
Uralic Family
Austroasiatic 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
Santali
Language Position
2241
1
120
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Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Santali Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
et
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
est
sat
ISO 639 2/B
est
sat
ISO 639 3
est
sat
ISO 639 6
est
sat
Glottocode
esto1258
sant1410
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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