Countries
Estonia, European Union
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Total No. Of Countries
29
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Gambia
Austria
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, Montenegro, Romania
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
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 croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
Similar To
Finnish
Serbain and Bosnian
Derived From
-
Church Slavonic
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2730
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
95
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1825
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Tere
bok
Thank You
aitäh
hvala
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
kako si
Good Night
Head ööd
laku noć
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
dobra večer
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
dobar dan
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
dobro jutro
Please
Palun
molim
Sorry
Vabandust
Oprostite
Bye
Head aega
Doviđenja
I Love You
ma armastan sind
Volim te
Excuse Me
Vabandage
Ispričavam se
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
Croatia
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00660,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tartu
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
Croatia
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Idamurre
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
879
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million89.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.03 %89.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.95 million5.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.10 million1.25 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
eesti keel
hrvatski
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Hrvatski
French Name
estonien
croate
German Name
Estnisch
Kroatisch
Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
Ethnicity
Estonians
Croats
Origin
13th century
9th century
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
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Language Position
2223
1
120
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Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Croatian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
et
hr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
est
hrv
ISO 639 2/B
est
hrv
ISO 639 3
est
hrv
ISO 639 6
est
hrv
Glottocode
esto1258
croa1245
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, Synthetic