Estonian

Uralic (Finnic)1.1 million totalLatin

RegionEstonia

FamilyUralic (Finnic)

Speakers1.1 million total

ScriptLatin

TypeAlphabetic

About Estonian

A Finnic language related to Finnish. Has 14 cases and no grammatical gender. Three way contrast in word length marks grammar. The Singing Revolution of the late 1980s used mass choral song toward independence. One of the few EU languages outside Indo-European.

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