Countries
Estonia, European Union
Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Gambia
Ukraine
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
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
Similar To
Finnish
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2733
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
96
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1822
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Tere
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
aitäh
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
Head ööd
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
Palun
будь ласк
Sorry
Vabandust
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
Head aega
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
ma armastan sind
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Vabandage
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Podillian
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0042,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tartu
Volynian
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0044,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Idamurre
Steppe
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0042,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
815
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million39.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.46 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.95 million39.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.10 million30.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
eesti keel
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
estonien
ukrainien
German Name
Estnisch
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Estonians
Ukrainians
Origin
13th century
1561
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Slavic
Branch
Finnic
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Estonian
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
2226
1
120
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Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
et
uk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
est
ukr
ISO 639 2/B
est
ukr
ISO 639 3
est
ukr
ISO 639 6
est
ukr
Glottocode
esto1258
ukra1253
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic