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Estonian Language
Estonian is the native language of the Republic of Estonia, where
it is spoken by about one million people, or two-thirds of the total
population.
Estonian is one of the Finno-Ugric languages, which constitute a
branch of the Uralic language family. Its closest relative is Finnish,
spoken across the Gulf of Finland. The two languages are sufficiently
similar to be mutually intelligible, at least for those Estonians
who speak the dialect of the north. Estonian is not, as is sometimes
thought, in any way related to its nearest geographic neighbors,
Latvian and Lithuanian.
Like Latvian and Lithuanian, Estonian employs the
Roman script. The alphabet lacks the letters c, q, w, x, y, z, but
contains the letter õ, found in no other language of eastern
Europe. Umlauts may appear over the letters a, o, and u.
Estonian is spoken/used in the following
countries: Estonia
Language Family
Family: Uralic
Subgroup: Finno-Ugric
Branch: Finnic
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