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Countries

Countries

European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
Estonia, European Union

Total No. Of Countries

42
0 46
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National Language

Sweden
Estonia, Gambia

Second Language

Finland
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Antartica, Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
Denmark, Russia, Sweden

Regulated By

Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
Institute of the Estonian Language

Interesting Facts

  • In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
  • Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
  • Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
  • Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.

Similar To

Norwegian and Danish Language
Finnish

Derived From

Old Norse Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2927
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

99
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1818
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

62
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hej
Tere

Thank You

tacka dig
aitäh

How Are You?

hur mår du
kuidas sul läheb

Good Night

godnatt
Head ööd

Good Evening

god kväll
Tere õhtust

Good Afternoon

god eftermiddag
Tere päevast

Good Morning

god morgon
Tere hommikust

Please

vänligen
Palun

Sorry

ledsen
Vabandust

Bye

hej då
Head aega

I Love You

jag älskar dig
ma armastan sind

Excuse Me

ursäkta mig
Vabandage

Dialects

Dialect 1

Dialects
Keskmurre

Where They Speak

Gabon
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia

How Many People Speak

78,000,000.001,300,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Dialects
Tartu

Where They Speak

Georgia
Georgia, South Estonia

How Many People Speak

78,000,000.001,300,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Dialects
Idamurre

Where They Speak

France
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.

How Many People Speak

96,000,000.001,300,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

798
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

15.00 million1.10 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %0.03 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.70 million0.95 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

5.00 million1.10 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Svenska
eesti keel

Alternative Names

Ruotsi, Svenska
Eesti keel

French Name

suédois
estonien

German Name

Schwedisch
Estnisch

Pronunciation

[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]

Ethnicity

Swedes, Finland Swedes
Estonians

History

Origin

13th Century
13th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Uralic Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Finno-Ugric

Branch

Northern (Scandinavian)
Finnic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Swedish
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Swedish
Estonian

Language Position

8922
1 120
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Signed Forms

Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
Estonian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

sv
et

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

swe
est

ISO 639 2/B

swe
est

ISO 639 3

swe
est

ISO 639 6

swe
est

Glottocode

swed1254
esto1258

Linguasphere

52-AAA-ck to -cw
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

-
Agglutinative

Swedish and Estonian Alphabets

Swedish and Estonian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Swedish and Estonian. In Swedish Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Estonian Alphabets there are 27 letters. To learn Swedish and Estonian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Swedish and Estonian languages. The Swedish phonology consist Swedish vowels and Swedish consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Swedish greetings vs Estonian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Swedish and Estonian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Swedish 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 Swedish and Estonian dialects. Various dialects of Swedish and Estonian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Swedish are spoken in different Swedish Speaking Countries whereas Estonian Dialects are spoken in different Estonian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Swedish vs Estonian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Swedish dialects include: Dialects, Dialects. Estonian dialects include: Keskmurre , Tartu. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Swedish and Estonian Speaking population

Swedish and Estonian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swedish and Estonian languages can be compared. The total count of Swedish and Estonian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swedish language is 0.13 % 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 Swedish and Estonian on Swedish vs Estonian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Swedish and Estonian Language Codes

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