The Estonian Language
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Estonian in a world context
Estonian is the mother tongue of 922,000 people in Estonia and 160,000 abroad, mostly in Sweden, Finland, Germany, the USA, Canada and Russia ...
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Other languages in Estonia
According to census figures for 2000, there are 109 languages spoken in Estonia as mother tongues, the majority language being Estonian (67.3%) followed by ...
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Linguistic activity
There of plenty of people concerned for the existence and maintenance of Estonian, and for some it is actually a job. The Language Inspectorate checks ...
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Language technology
The support of language technology is nowadays essential for the maintenance of a language. In everyday life it is possible for Estonians to conduct their ...
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The many-sided Estonian language
In the 18th century and earlier, when the population of Estonia was much more sedentary than today, a speaker's speech peculiarities were dependent on ...
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Vocabulary
To some extent one can read a nation's history from its language. Words borrowed from elsewhere indicate what, from whom and when we acquired ...
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Personal names
In the last decade of the 20th century, 19,158 different names were given to Estonian children. This variety consisted of native Estonian names (Malle ...
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Orthography and pronunciation
The Estonian alphabet is: a, b, d, e, f, g, h, i , j, k, l, m, n, o, p, r, s, š, z, ž, t ...
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Structure
Characteristically for the Uralic languages, and in contrast to Indo-European ones, Estonian has a large number of cases. Nouns, adjectives, numerals and pronouns change through ...
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