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Estonian

Swahili
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Countries

Countries

Estonia, European Union
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya

Total No. Of Countries

24
0 46
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National Language

Estonia, Gambia
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe
Africa

Minority Language

Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Institute of the Estonian Language
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)

Interesting Facts

  • Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
  • Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.

Similar To

Finnish
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages

Derived From

-
Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2724
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

95
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1821
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

23
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks36 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Tere
Habari

Thank You

aitäh
Asante

How Are You?

kuidas sul läheb
Habari gani?

Good Night

Head ööd
Usiku mwema

Good Evening

Tere õhtust
Habari za jioni

Good Afternoon

Tere päevast
nzuri Alasiri

Good Morning

Tere hommikust
Habari za asubuhi

Please

Palun
tafadhali

Sorry

Vabandust
pole

Bye

Head aega
bye

I Love You

ma armastan sind
nakupenda

Excuse Me

Vabandage
Samahani

Dialects

Dialect 1

Keskmurre
Kiunguja

Where They Speak

Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
Zanzibar island

How Many People Speak

1,300,000.0075,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Tartu
Kimrima

Where They Speak

Georgia, South Estonia
Dar es Salaam

How Many People Speak

1,300,000.0075,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Idamurre
Kimgao

Where They Speak

France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
Kilwa

How Many People Speak

1,300,000.0075,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

812
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

1.10 million150.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.03 %0.42 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.95 million15.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.10 million75.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

eesti keel
Kiswahili

Alternative Names

Eesti keel
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili

French Name

estonien
swahili

German Name

Estnisch
Swahili

Pronunciation

[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[swaˈhili]

Ethnicity

Estonians
Swahili people or Waswahili

History

Origin

13th century
6th century

Language Family

Uralic Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Finno-Ugric
Benue-Congo

Branch

Finnic
Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Estonian
Swahili

Language Position

2221
1 120
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Signed Forms

Estonian Sign Language
Swahili Sign Language

Scope

Macrolanguage
Individual, Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

et
sw

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

est
swa

ISO 639 2/B

est
swa

ISO 639 3

est
swa

ISO 639 6

est
swa

Glottocode

esto1258
swah1254

Linguasphere

No data available
99-AUS-m

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
-

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
-

Estonian and Swahili Alphabets

Estonian and Swahili Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Estonian and Swahili. In Estonian Alphabets there are 27 letters while in Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Estonian and Swahili languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Estonian and Swahili languages. The Estonian phonology consist Estonian vowels and Estonian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Estonian greetings vs Swahili greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Estonian and Swahili are Most Spoken Languages.

All Estonian and Swahili Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Estonian and Swahili dialects. Various dialects of Estonian and Swahili language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Estonian are spoken in different Estonian Speaking Countries whereas Swahili Dialects are spoken in different Swahili speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Estonian vs Swahili Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Estonian dialects include: Keskmurre, Tartu. Swahili dialects include: Kiunguja , Kimrima. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Estonian and Swahili Speaking population

Estonian and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Estonian and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Estonian and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Estonian language is 0.03 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Swahili language is 0.42 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Estonian and Swahili on Estonian vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Estonian and Swahili Language Codes

Estonian and Swahili language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Estonian and Swahili Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.