Countries
Estonia, European Union
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
Total No. Of Countries
25
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Gambia
North Korea, South Korea
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
The National Institute of the Korean 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.
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
Similar To
Finnish
Chinese and Japanese languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2740
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
921
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1819
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Hangul
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Tere
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
Thank You
aitäh
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
Good Night
Head ööd
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
Please
Palun
하십시오 (hasibsio)
Sorry
Vabandust
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
Bye
Head aega
안녕 (annyeong)
I Love You
ma armastan sind
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
Excuse Me
Vabandage
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Jeju
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
South Korea
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0010,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tartu
Gyeongsang
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
South Korea
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Idamurre
Hamgyŏng
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
China, North Korea
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0077,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
812
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million77.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %1.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.95 million77.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.10 million77.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
eesti keel
한국어 (조선말)
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
French Name
estonien
coréen
German Name
Estnisch
Koreanisch
Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[hangukmal]
Ethnicity
Estonians
Koreans
Origin
13th century
Before 1st century
Language Family
Uralic Family
Koreanic Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
-
Branch
Finnic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
Standard Forms
Estonian
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
Language Position
2212
1
120
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Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Korean Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
et
ko
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
est
kor
ISO 639 2/B
est
kor
ISO 639 3
est
Kor
ISO 639 6
est
kor
Glottocode
esto1258
kore1280
Linguasphere
No data available
45-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative