Countries
Estonia, European Union
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Gambia
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
Language Academy of Nepal
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Finnish
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2748
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
912
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1836
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Tere
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
aitäh
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Head ööd
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
Palun
कृपया
Sorry
Vabandust
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Head aega
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
ma armastan sind
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Vabandage
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Doteli
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Tartu
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Idamurre
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
812
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.95 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.10 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
eesti keel
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
estonien
népalais
German Name
Estnisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Estonians
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
13th century
19 BC
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Finnic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Estonian
Nepali
Language Position
2259
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
et
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
est
nep
ISO 639 2/B
est
nep
ISO 639 3
est
npi
ISO 639 6
est
nep
Glottocode
esto1258
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative