Countries
Estonia, European Union
Norway
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Gambia
Norway
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Nynorsk
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
Norwegian Language Council
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
Similar To
Finnish
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2729
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
99
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
24
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Tere
hallo
Thank You
aitäh
takk
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
Head ööd
god natt
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
god kveld
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
god morgen
Please
Palun
Vær så snill
Sorry
Vabandust
unnskyld
Bye
Head aega
ha det
I Love You
ma armastan sind
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
Vabandage
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tartu
Sognamål
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
Sogn
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Idamurre
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.005,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
819
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million5.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.03 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.95 million5.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.10 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
eesti keel
Norsk
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Norsk
French Name
estonien
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Estnisch
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Estonians
Norwegians
Origin
13th century
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Germanic
Branch
Finnic
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Estonian
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
2218
1
120
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Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
et
no
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
est
nor
ISO 639 2/B
est
nor
ISO 639 3
est
nor
ISO 639 6
est
nor
Glottocode
esto1258
norw1258
Linguasphere
No data available
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional