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Estonian

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Countries

Countries

Estonia, European Union
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden

Total No. Of Countries

24
0 46
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National Language

Estonia, Gambia
Sweden

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Finland

Speaking Continents

Europe
Antartica, Europe

Minority Language

Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America

Regulated By

Institute of the Estonian Language
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council

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 Swedish language, article comes after noun.
  • Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.

Similar To

Finnish
Norwegian and Danish Language

Derived From

-
Old Norse Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2729
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

99
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1818
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

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 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Tere
hej

Thank You

aitäh
tacka dig

How Are You?

kuidas sul läheb
hur mår du

Good Night

Head ööd
godnatt

Good Evening

Tere õhtust
god kväll

Good Afternoon

Tere päevast
god eftermiddag

Good Morning

Tere hommikust
god morgon

Please

Palun
vänligen

Sorry

Vabandust
ledsen

Bye

Head aega
hej då

I Love You

ma armastan sind
jag älskar dig

Excuse Me

Vabandage
ursäkta mig

Dialects

Dialect 1

Keskmurre
Dialects

Where They Speak

Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
Gabon

How Many People Speak

1,300,000.0078,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Tartu
Dialects

Where They Speak

Georgia, South Estonia
Georgia

How Many People Speak

1,300,000.0078,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Idamurre
Dialects

Where They Speak

France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
France

How Many People Speak

1,300,000.0096,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

879
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

1.10 million15.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.03 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.95 million8.70 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.10 million5.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

eesti keel
Svenska

Alternative Names

Eesti keel
Ruotsi, Svenska

French Name

estonien
suédois

German Name

Estnisch
Schwedisch

Pronunciation

[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]

Ethnicity

Estonians
Swedes, Finland Swedes

History

Origin

13th century
13th Century

Language Family

Uralic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Finno-Ugric
Germanic

Branch

Finnic
Northern (Scandinavian)

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Swedish

Standard Forms

Estonian
Standard Swedish

Language Position

2289
1 120
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Signed Forms

Estonian Sign Language
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")

Scope

Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

et
sv

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

est
swe

ISO 639 2/B

est
swe

ISO 639 3

est
swe

ISO 639 6

est
swe

Glottocode

esto1258
swed1254

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
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Estonian and Swedish Alphabets

Estonian and Swedish Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Estonian and Swedish. In Estonian Alphabets there are 27 letters while in Swedish Alphabets there are 29 letters. To learn Estonian and Swedish languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Estonian and Swedish 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 Swedish greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Estonian and Swedish are Most Spoken Languages.

All Estonian and Swedish 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 Swedish dialects. Various dialects of Estonian and Swedish language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Estonian are spoken in different Estonian Speaking Countries whereas Swedish Dialects are spoken in different Swedish speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Estonian vs Swedish Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Estonian dialects include: Keskmurre, Tartu. Swedish dialects include: Dialects , Dialects. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Estonian and Swedish Speaking population

Estonian and Swedish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Estonian and Swedish languages can be compared. The total count of Estonian and Swedish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Estonian language is 0.03 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Swedish language is 0.13 %. 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 Swedish on Estonian vs Swedish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Estonian and Swedish Language Codes

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