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Estonian is a Finnic language spoken primarily in Estonia as its official language. It matters as the native language of the Estonian people and a key part of Estonian cultural and national identity.
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- modern language
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- Uralic
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- South Estonian
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- Estonia
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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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