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Estonian

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Also known as Estonian language, North Estonian, North Estonian language, Northern Estonian, Northern Estonian language

Finnic language

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Estonian, known natively as eesti keel, is a natural language and macrolanguage indigenous to Estonia and the Estonians. It belongs to the Finnic and Uralic language families. The language is written using the Latin script and is regulated by the Institute of the Estonian Language. It has 1,251,770 speakers.

Estonian is an agglutinative, synthetic, subject–verb–object language with a nominative–accusative typology. Its grammatical structure includes nominative, genitive, partitive, and inessive cases. The language possesses present and past tenses. South Estonian is a part of the language. The language is associated with the coordinates 58.55, 25.82.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
modern language
Subclass of
Uralic
Has part
South Estonian
Country
Estonia
Image
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short name
эстойнаг
Wikimedia language code
et
Commons category
Estonian language
topic's main category
Category:Estonian language
language regulatory body
Institute of the Estonian Language
native label
eesti keel
number of speakers, writers, or signers
1251770
has grammatical case
comitative case
linguistic typology
V2 word order
indigenous to
Estonia
category for films in this language
Category:Estonian-language films
exact match
afbo.info/languages/4
P10369
Jesus
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São Paulo
entry in abbreviations table
эст.
has tense
past tense
P8168
Ocean's 11
female form of label
la langue estonienne
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Encyclopedic overview

Estonian (eesti keel [ˈeːsʲti ˈkeːl] ) is a Finnic language and the official language of Estonia. It is written in the Latin script and is the first language of the majority of the country's population; it is also an official language of the European Union. Estonian is spoken natively by about 1.1 million people: 922,000 people in Estonia and 160,000 elsewhere.

Classification

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