German

Estonian

German and Estonian

German

Estonian

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Countries

Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Estonia, European Union

Total No. Of Countries

0 46

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National Language

Germany

Estonia, Gambia

Second Language

North Dakota, United States of America

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe

Minority Language

Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Denmark, Russia, Sweden

Regulated By

Council for German Orthography

Institute of the Estonian Language

Interesting Facts

One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.

Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.

Similar To

Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages

Finnish

Derived From

Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2627

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

109

0 32

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How Many Consonants

918

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks44 weeks

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

hallo

Tere

Thank You

Danke

aitäh

How Are You?

Wie geht es dir?

kuidas sul läheb

Good Night

gute Nacht

Head ööd

Good Evening

guten Abend

Tere õhtust

Good Afternoon

guten Tag

Tere päevast

Good Morning

guten Morgen

Tere hommikust

Please

bitte

Palun

Sorry

Verzeihung

Vabandust

Bye

Tschüs

Head aega

I Love You

Ich liebe dich

ma armastan sind

Excuse Me

Entschuldigung

Vabandage

Dialects

Dialect 1

Swiss German

Keskmurre

Where They Speak

Switzerland

Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.001,300,000.00

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Swabian German

Tartu

Where They Speak

Germany

Georgia, South Estonia

How Many People Speak

820,000.001,300,000.00

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Texas German

Idamurre

Where They Speak

Texas

France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.

How Many People Speak

6,000.001,300,000.00

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

288

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

229.00 million1.10 million

0 1200

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Speaking Population

1.39 %0.03 %

0 89

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Native Speakers

101.00 million0.95 million

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

128.00 million1.10 million

0.01 400

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Native Name

Deutsch

eesti keel

Alternative Names

Deutsch, Tedesco

Eesti keel

French Name

allemand

estonien

German Name

Deutsch

Estnisch

Pronunciation

[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]

Ethnicity

Germans

Estonians

History

Origin

6th Century AD

13th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Uralic Family

Subgroup

Germanic

Finno-Ugric

Branch

Western

Finnic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Estonian

Language Position

922

1 120

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Signed Forms

Signed German

Estonian Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

deu

est

ISO 639 2/B

ger

est

ISO 639 3

deu

est

ISO 639 6

deus

est

Glottocode

high1287, uppe1397

esto1258

Linguasphere

52-ACB–dl & -dm

No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic

Agglutinative

German and Estonian Alphabets

German and Estonian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in German and Estonian. In German Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Estonian Alphabets there are 27 letters. To learn German and Estonian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of German and Estonian languages. The German phonology consist German vowels and German consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at German greetings vs Estonian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether German and Estonian are Most Spoken Languages.

All German and Estonian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all German and Estonian dialects. Various dialects of German and Estonian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of German are spoken in different German Speaking Countries whereas Estonian Dialects are spoken in different Estonian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking German vs Estonian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the German dialects include: Swiss German, Swabian German. Estonian dialects include: Keskmurre , Tartu. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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German and Estonian Speaking population

German and Estonian speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Estonian languages can be compared. The total count of German and Estonian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Estonian language is 0.03 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak German and Estonian on German vs Estonian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Estonian Language Codes

German and Estonian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. German and Estonian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.