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  2. Estonian language - Wikipedia

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    Estonian (eesti keel [ˈeːsʲti ˈkeːl] ⓘ) is a Finnic language of the Uralic family. Estonian is 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 ...

  3. Estonian grammar - Wikipedia

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    Estonian consonant gradation is a grammatical process that affects obstruent consonants at the end of the stressed syllable of a word. Gradation causes consonants in a word to alternate between two grades, termed "strong" and "weak", depending on the grammar.

  4. Languages of Estonia - Wikipedia

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    Seto is a language from the Finnic branch of the Uralic languages.It is sometimes identified as a dialect of either South Estonian (along with Võro, Tartu and Mulgi) or Võro, some linguists also consider Seto and Võro to be dialects from a common language, Võro-Seto, or Seto to be a language on its own, more similar to Medieval Estonian than the current standardized Estonian, having strong ...

  5. Estonian phonology - Wikipedia

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    Estonian vowel chart, from Asu & Teras (2009:368). For some speakers, /ɤ/ can be more back (closer to /o/), or more back and higher (closer to /u/). There are 9 vowels and 36 diphthongs, 28 of which are native to Estonian. [1] All nine vowels can appear as the first component of a diphthong, but only /ɑ, e, i, o, u/ occur as the second component.

  6. Estonian vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Estonian language planners such as Ado Grenzstein (a journalist active in Estonia in the 1870s–90s) tried to use formation ex nihilo, Urschöpfung, [3] i.e. they created new words out of nothing. Examples are Ado Grenzstein's coinages kabe ‘draughts, chequers’ and male ‘chess’.

  7. Mother Tongue Society - Wikipedia

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    Mother Tongue Society (Estonian: Emakeele Selts) is an Estonian organization that focuses on topics related to the Estonian language. [1] The organization was established on 23 March 1920 at Tartu University. Today, the organization is located in Tallinn. The organization is an associated organization of Estonian Academy of Sciences. [1]

  8. Category:Estonian language - Wikipedia

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    Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; ... Pages in category "Estonian language" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.

  9. Estonian orthography - Wikipedia

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    Estonian orthography is the system used for writing the Estonian language and is based on the Latin alphabet. The Estonian orthography is generally guided by phonemic principles, with each grapheme corresponding to one phoneme .

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