Countries
Estonia, European Union
European Union, Lithuania
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Gambia
Lithuania
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
Poland
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
Commission of the Lithuanian 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.
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
Similar To
Finnish
Latvian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2732
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
912
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1820
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Tere
Sveiki
Thank You
aitäh
Ačiū
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
Kaip sekasi?
Good Night
Head ööd
Labanakt
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
Laba diena
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
Labas rytas
Please
Palun
Prašom
Sorry
Vabandust
atsiprašau
Bye
Head aega
Ate
I Love You
ma armastan sind
Aš myliu tave
Excuse Me
Vabandage
Atsiprašau
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Samogitian
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tartu
Aukštaitian
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Idamurre
Curonian
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
810
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million3.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.03 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.95 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.10 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
eesti keel
lietuvių kalba
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
French Name
estonien
lituanien
German Name
Estnisch
Litauisch
Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
Ethnicity
Estonians
Lithuanians
Origin
13th century
c. 1503
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
-
Branch
Finnic
Baltic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Estonian
Lithuanian
Language Position
2244
1
120
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Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Lithuanian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
et
lt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
est
lit
ISO 639 2/B
est
lit
ISO 639 3
est
lit
ISO 639 6
est
lit
Glottocode
esto1258
lith1251
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
Synthetic