Countries
Estonia, European Union
Ukraine
National Language
Estonia, Gambia
Ukraine
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
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian 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.
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
Similar To
Finnish
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Alphabets in
Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hello
Tere
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
aitäh
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
Head ööd
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Sorry
Vabandust
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
Head aega
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
ma armastan sind
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Vabandage
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Podillian
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
Rivne, Volyn
Dialect 3
Idamurre
Steppe
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
Native Name
eesti keel
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
estonien
ukrainien
German Name
Estnisch
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Estonians
Ukrainians
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Slavic
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Estonian
Modern Ukrainian
Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
Glottocode
esto1258
ukra1253
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic
Estonian and Ukrainian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Estonian and Ukrainian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Estonian and Ukrainian language. Estonian word for "Hello" is Tere or Ukrainian word for "Thank You" is Дякую (Dyakuyu). Find more of such common Estonian Greetings and Ukrainian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Estonian vs Ukrainian Difficulty
The Estonian vs Ukrainian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Estonian Alphabets and Ukrainian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Estonian and Ukrainian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Estonian and Ukrainian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Estonian is 44 weeks while to learn Ukrainian time required is 44 weeks.