Countries
Estonia, European Union
European Union, Slovenia
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Gambia
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
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
Austria, Hungary, Italy
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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 Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
Similar To
Finnish
Serbo-Croatian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2725
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
95
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1820
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
22
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Tere
Halo
Thank You
aitäh
Hvala
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
Kako se imate?
Good Night
Head ööd
Lahko noč
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
Dober večer
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
Dober dan
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
Dobro jutro
Please
Palun
Prosim
Sorry
Vabandust
Oprostite
Bye
Head aega
Nasvidenje
I Love You
ma armastan sind
Ljubim te
Excuse Me
Vabandage
Oprostite
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Prekmurje Slovene
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
Hungary, Slovenia
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tartu
Resian
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
Italy
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.002,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Idamurre
Styrian
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
Slovenia
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.002,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
848
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.10 million2.50 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.03 %0.03 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.95 million2.50 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.10 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
eesti keel
Slovenščina
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Slovenian, Slovenscina
French Name
estonien
slovène
German Name
Estnisch
Slowenisch
Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
Ethnicity
Estonians
Slovenes
Origin
13th century
972-1093
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
-
Branch
Finnic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Estonian
Slovene
Language Position
2228
1
120
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Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Slovene Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
et
sl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
est
slv
ISO 639 2/B
est
slv
ISO 639 3
est
slv
ISO 639 6
est
slv
Glottocode
esto1258
slov1268
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional