Countries
Estonia, European Union
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Gambia
Japan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Palau
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Finnish
Korean Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2799
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
95
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1814
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Kana
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
25
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Tere
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
aitäh
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
Head ööd
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
Palun
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
Vabandust
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
Head aega
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
ma armastan sind
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
Vabandage
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tartu
Hakata
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Idamurre
Kansai
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
kansai
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
831
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.10 million128.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.03 %1.90 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.95 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.10 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
eesti keel
日本語
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Nihongo
French Name
estonien
japonais
German Name
Estnisch
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Estonians
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
13th century
1185
Language Family
Uralic Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
-
Branch
Finnic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Estonian
Japanese
Language Position
228
1
120
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Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Signed Japanese
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
et
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
est
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
est
jpn
ISO 639 3
est
jpn
ISO 639 6
est
jpn
Glottocode
esto1258
nucl1643
Linguasphere
No data available
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative, Synthetic