Estonian

Estonian is spoken by about 1.1 million people worldwide, around 950,000 of whom live in Estonia itself.

It is a member of the Finno-Ugric language family, being closely related to Finnish and more distantly so to Hungarian. It's not an Indo-European language such as French or Spanish, and as a result the vast majority of words in Estonian will look thoroughly unfamiliar to someone whose mother tongue is English.

Estonian is certainly not considered to be an easy language to learn for English-speakers. However, don't be put off! With a little practice, you should soon find yourself able to get by in most everyday situations.

Estonian is the official language of Estonia, spoken by about 1.1 million people in Estonia and by some ten thousand in various émigré communities. It is a Finno-Ugric language and is closely related to Finnish.

IEL does not teach Estonian. Some materials and pointers to language schools are gathered in Q and A about Estonian language
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Development Strategy of the Estonian Language 2004-1010
Books
The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
English-Estonian dictionary
Language technology pages
Estonian Dialects
Publications
EKI 50 - Bibliography
Dictionaries
Folklore
Place names database
Letter database
Text corpus
Software
EKI staff
Other resources about Estonia(n)

Estonian Legal Language Center - Translations of Estonian legislation into English made available online

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Estonian is spoken by about 1.1 million people worldwide, around 950,000 of whom live in Estonia itself.

It is a member of the Finno-Ugric language family, being closely related to Finnish and more distantly so to Hungarian. It's not an Indo-European language such as French or Spanish, and as a result the vast majority of words in Estonian will look thoroughly unfamiliar to someone whose mother tongue is English.

Estonian is certainly not considered to be an easy language to learn for English-speakers. However, don't be put off! With a little practice, you should soon find yourself able to get by in most everyday situations.

Estonian is the official language of Estonia, spoken by about 1.1 million people in Estonia and by some ten thousand in various émigré communities. It is a Finno-Ugric language and is closely related to Finnish.

IEL does not teach Estonian. Some materials and pointers to language schools are gathered in Q and A about Estonian language
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Development Strategy of the Estonian Language 2004-1010
Books
The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
English-Estonian dictionary
Language technology pages
Estonian Dialects
Publications
EKI 50 - Bibliography
Dictionaries
Folklore
Place names database
Letter database
Text corpus
Software
EKI staff
Other resources about Estonia(n)

Estonian Legal Language Center - Translations of Estonian legislation into English made available online