Countries
European Union, Slovenia
Estonia, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
Estonia, Gambia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Regulated By
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Institute of the Estonian Language
Interesting Facts
- The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
Similar To
Serbo-Croatian
Finnish
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2527
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
59
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2018
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
22
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Halo
Tere
Thank You
Hvala
aitäh
How Are You?
Kako se imate?
kuidas sul läheb
Good Night
Lahko noč
Head ööd
Good Evening
Dober večer
Tere õhtust
Good Afternoon
Dober dan
Tere päevast
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
Tere hommikust
Please
Prosim
Palun
Sorry
Oprostite
Vabandust
Bye
Nasvidenje
Head aega
I Love You
Ljubim te
ma armastan sind
Excuse Me
Oprostite
Vabandage
Dialect 1
Prekmurje Slovene
Keskmurre
Where They Speak
Hungary, Slovenia
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
How Many People Speak
80,000.001,300,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Resian
Tartu
Where They Speak
Italy
Georgia, South Estonia
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.001,300,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Styrian
Idamurre
Where They Speak
Slovenia
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.001,300,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
488
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
2.50 million1.10 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.03 %0.03 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
2.50 million0.95 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million1.10 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Slovenščina
eesti keel
Alternative Names
Slovenian, Slovenscina
Eesti keel
French Name
slovène
estonien
German Name
Slowenisch
Estnisch
Pronunciation
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
Ethnicity
Slovenes
Estonians
Origin
972-1093
13th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
-
Finno-Ugric
Branch
-
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Slovene
Estonian
Language Position
2822
1
120
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Signed Forms
Slovene Sign Language
Estonian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
sl
et
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
slv
est
ISO 639 2/B
slv
est
ISO 639 3
slv
est
ISO 639 6
slv
est
Glottocode
slov1268
esto1258
Linguasphere
53-AAA-f
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative