Countries
Estonia, European Union
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Gambia
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
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
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
Similar To
Finnish
Czech Language
Derived From
-
Czech-Slovak Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2746
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
915
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1838
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
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Tere
Ahoj
Thank You
aitäh
Ďakujem vám
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
Ako sa máte?
Good Night
Head ööd
Dobrú noc
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
Dobrý večer
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
Dobré popoludnie
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
Dobré ráno
Please
Palun
Prosím
Sorry
Vabandust
Pardón!
Bye
Head aega
Dovidenia
I Love You
ma armastan sind
Ľúbim Ťa
Excuse Me
Vabandage
Prepáčte!
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Eastern Slovak
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.005,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tartu
Central Slovak
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Idamurre
Western Slovak
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.005,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
84
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million5.20 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.95 million5.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.10 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
eesti keel
slovenčina
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Slovakian, Slovencina
French Name
estonien
slovaque
German Name
Estnisch
Slowakisch
Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[ˈsləʊvæk]
Ethnicity
Estonians
Slovaks
Origin
13th century
6th Century
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Slavic
Branch
Finnic
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Slavic
Standard Forms
Estonian
Slovak
Language Position
2227
1
120
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Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Slovak Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
et
sk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
est
slk
ISO 639 2/B
est
slo
ISO 639 3
est
slk
ISO 639 6
est
slk
Glottocode
esto1258
slov1269
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Synthetic