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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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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.

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