Category:Estonian (Language)

This language Estonian, is a language of the Uralic group related to Finnish. It is the primary language of Estonia and is spoken by 963,300 persons there (approximately 61.5% of the population) as of 1989. There were some 56,000 speakers in Russia at that time. According to the 1970 USA census, there were 20,507 speakers, for a grand total of about 1.1 million speakers worldwide. Standard Estonian is based on the central dialect of Northern Estonian. Prior to independence in 1991, Estonia was part of the former USSR, and therefore most people betwee, the ages of 20 and 60 years speak Russian as well. Like its cousin Finnish, Estonian has a complex system of declensions with 14 cases. A1s like Finnish, Estonian is a non-tonal language with stress on the first syllable and some secondary stress on the third syllable.

See Also

Estonian Rosary Prayers