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Finnish vs Estonian

Both belong to the Uralic family; their closest common node in the Glottolog tree: Neva. Both are used in: Estonia.

Relatedness is not mutual intelligibility: languages of one branch can be unintelligible to each other, while very close ones (such as Serbian and Croatian) differ mainly in status and script. That is why we give no “similarity percentage”.

Finnish

suomi

Family and branch (Glottolog)
  1. Uralic
  2. Finnic
  3. Coastal Finnic
  4. Neva
  5. North Finnic
  6. Nuclear Finnish
  7. Finnish
Script
Latin
Hello / thank you
hei / kiitos
Speakers (estimate)
c. 5.8 million sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
Co-official (1)
Finland
Legally recognised (1)
Sweden
Without status
widely used in 1 country, a minority language in 1 country

Estonian

eesti

Family and branch (Glottolog)
  1. Uralic
  2. Finnic
  3. Coastal Finnic
  4. Neva
  5. Central Finnic
  6. Estonian
Script
Latin
Hello / thank you
tere / aitäh
Speakers (estimate)
c. 854 thousand sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
Official (1)
Estonia
Without status
a minority language in 1 country

Where they are spoken

  • Finnish 2
  • Estonian 0
  • both 1

Countries where the language has a legal status or is known by at least 10% of the population (CLDR); countries where it is only a minority language are not shown.

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