Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Estonia, European Union
National Language
Russia
Estonia, Gambia
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Institute of the Estonian Language
Interesting Facts
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Finnish
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Tere
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
aitäh
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
kuidas sul läheb
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Head ööd
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Tere õhtust
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Tere päevast
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Tere hommikust
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Palun
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
Vabandust
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Head aega
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
ma armastan sind
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Vabandage
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Keskmurre
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
Where They Speak
Olonets
Georgia, South Estonia
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Idamurre
Where They Speak
Novgorod
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
Native Name
Русский
eesti keel
Alternative Names
Russki
Eesti keel
French Name
russe
estonien
German Name
Russisch
Estnisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
Ethnicity
Russians
Estonians
Origin
1000 AD
13th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Finno-Ugric
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Estonian
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Estonian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
Glottocode
russ1263
esto1258
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative
Russian and Estonian 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 Russian and Estonian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Estonian language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Estonian word for "Thank You" is aitäh. Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Estonian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Estonian Difficulty
The Russian vs Estonian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Estonian 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 Russian and Estonian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Estonian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Estonian time required is 44 weeks.