Countries
Estonia, European Union
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Gambia
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Botswana, Lesotho
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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
Similar To
Finnish
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
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Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2753
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
910
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1843
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Tere
Molo
Thank You
aitäh
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
Unjani
Good Night
Head ööd
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
Molo
Please
Palun
Ndicela
Sorry
Vabandust
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
Head aega
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
ma armastan sind
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
Vabandage
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
South Africa
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tartu
Thembu
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
South Africa
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Idamurre
Hlubi
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
South Africa
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0019.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
89
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.10 million20.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.03 %0.11 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.95 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.10 million11.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
eesti keel
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
estonien
xhosa
German Name
Estnisch
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Estonians
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
13th century
16th 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
isiXhosa
Language Position
2221
1
120
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Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Signed Xhosa
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
et
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
est
xho
ISO 639 2/B
est
xho
ISO 639 3
est
xho
ISO 639 6
est
xho
Glottocode
esto1258
xhos1239
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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