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<tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> eesti keel,Estonian,Viro,Eesti

<b>Description:</b>

Estonian (eesti keel; pronounced [ˈeːsti ˈkeːl] ( listen)) is the official language of Estonia, spoken by about 1.1 million people in Estonia and tens of thousands in various émigré communities. It is a Uralic language and is closely related to Finnish.
One distinctive feature that has caused a great amount of interest in linguists is that Estonian has what is traditionally seen as three degrees of phoneme 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.
Kas siis selle maa keel
Laulutuules ei või
Taevani tõustes üles
Igavikku omale otsida?
In English:
Cannot the tongue of this land
In the fire of incantation
Rising up to the heavens
Seek for eternity?
Those lines have been interpreted as a claim to reestablish the birthright of the Estonian language. Kristjan Jaak Peterson (1801-22) the first student at the then German-language University of Tartu to acknowledge his Estonian origin, is commonly regarded as a herald of Estonian national literature and considered the founder of modern Estonian poetry. His birthday on<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=10223 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
<tr><td><h2>Location of Estonian Language Speakers</h2>
http://llmap.org/languages/est/static_map.png?width=400&height=300&kilroywashere=.png
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<tr><td><h2>Rosetta Document Collection</h2>
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<tr><td>Genesis Translation:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_est_gen-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_est_gen-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Orthography:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_est_ortho-2 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_est_ortho-2 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>2</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_est_ortho-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_est_ortho-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Universal Declaration Of Human Rights:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_est_undec-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_est_undec-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
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<h2>Overview</h2>

<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/estonia Estonia]</td></tr>

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<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/europe Europe]
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-1 Code: </b></td><td>et</td></tr>

<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>est</td></tr>

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<tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
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  [[Uralic Group]]

    [[Finno-Ugric Group]]

      [[Finno-Permic Group]]

        [[Finno-Cheremisic Group]]

          [[Finno-Mordvinic Group]]

            [[Finno-Lappic Group]]

              [[Baltic-Finnic Group]]

                <b>[[Estonian Language]]</b>

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