About Estonian Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Estonian is a Uralic language of the Finnic branch and is spoken in Estonia. It is the official language of Estonia and is spoken by almost 1.1 million people; 922,000 people in Estonia. It is also spoken by 160,000 outside Estonia. It is a Southern Finnic language and has gained a lot of popularity. Estonian belongs to the Finnic branch and it belongs to the Uralic language family. The Finnic group also includes Finnish and some other minority languages. It is spoken around the Baltic Sea and in Saint Petersburg. It is a popular language alongside Finnish, Hungarian and Maltese. Estonian is one of the four official languages that is most spoken in the European Union. It has some overlaps in the vocabulary. Estonian and Germanic languages are of different origins. There are many similar words in Estonian and German languages. The Estonian language has borrowed one-third of its vocabulary from Germanic languages. It was introduced during the German rule and High German.
About Belarusian Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Belarus is a popular country in Eastern Europe but it got independence in 1991. This country was traditionally known as Belorussia or White Russia. It is one of the smallest among the three Slavic republics of the Soviet Union. The larger ones are Russia and Ukraine. Belarusian and Russian are the official languages of Belarus. Even the dialects are transitional in both. If we talk about the written form it features Cyrillic alphabets. The loanwords are taken from both Polish and Russian. These words are also reflective of the history of the region. The total number of Belarusian speakers is 5.1 million. About 85.6% of Belarusians have declared it as their mother tongue. All the native speakers speak this language in their daily communications.
