Estonian (eesti keel; pronounced [ˈeːsti ˈkeːl] ( listen)) is the official language of Estonia Estonia [ɛsˈtəʊniə] , officially the Republic of Estonia (Estonian: Eesti or Eesti Vabariik), is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia (343 km), and to the east by the Russian Federation (338,6 km). The territory of Estonia, spoken by about 1.1 million people in Estonia and tens of thousands in various émigré Émigré is a French term that literally refers to a person who has "migrated out," but often carries a connotation of politico-social self-exile communities. It is a Uralic language The Uralic languages constitute a language family of 39 languages spoken by approximately 25 million people. The healthiest Uralic languages in terms of the number of native speakers are Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian, Mari and Udmurt. Countries that are home to a significant number of speakers of Uralic languages include Estonia, Finland, Hungary, and is closely related to Finnish Finnish ( suomi , or suomen kieli) is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland (92% as of 2006[update]) and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. It is one of the official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a Finnish dialect, are spoken. The Kven.
One distinctive feature that has caused a great amount of interest in linguists Linguistics is the scientific study of natural language. Linguistics encompasses a number of sub-fields. An important topical division is between the study of language structure and the study of meaning (semantics). Grammar encompasses morphology (the formation and composition of words), syntax (the rules that determine how words combine into is that Estonian has what is traditionally seen as three degrees of phoneme In human phonology, a phoneme is the smallest segmental unit of sound employed to form meaningful contrasts between utterances length: short, long, and "overlong", such that /toto/, /toˑto/ and /toːto/ are distinct. In actuality, the distinction is not purely in the phoneme length, and the underlying phonological mechanism is still disputed.
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Scott Diel
ue, 24 Mar 2009 12:23:26 GM
If there's a period of history when only . Estonians. lived in . Estonia. and the . Estonian language. was spoken by all, I haven't heard of it. Some, who like to talk about the good ol' days, have painted Tallinn as an ". Estonian. city" during ...
