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 Kazakh Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Kazakh is also known as Qazaq. It is a Turkic language of the Kipchak branch and is spoken in Central Asia. The language is closely related to Nogai, Kyrgyz, and Karakalpak. It is the official language of Kazakhstan and is a minority language in Xinjiang. Kazakh is also spoken in China and the Bayan-Ölgii Province of Mongolia. It is also spoken by ethnic Kazakhs in the former Soviet Union. The language is also spoken in Germany and Turkey. Just like many Turkic languages, Kazakh employs vowel harmony. Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev changed the writing system of the language. The Cyrillic to Latin script has been enforced till the year 2025. The proposed Latin alphabet was revised several times and was introduced in January 2021. The language has many Turkish alphabets, and lacks the letters C. Kazakh has four additional letters that include: Ä, Ñ, Q, and Ū.The language is scheduled to be phased in from 2023 to 2031.
