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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’. [3]
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 ...
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 ...
Estonian-language surnames (391 P) Pages in category "Estonian words and phrases" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
After Estonia gained independence in 1918, the standardized Estonian language policies were implemented further throughout the country. The government officials during the era believed that the Estonian state needed to have one standard language for all of its citizens, which led to the exclusion of South Estonian in education.
Estonian-language surnames (391 P) T. Translators from Estonian (1 C, 4 P) Translators to Estonian (1 C, 18 P) W. Estonian words and phrases (2 C, 2 P) Estonian ...
The Southern Finnic languages consist of North and South Estonian (excluding the Coastal Estonian dialect group), Livonian and Votic (except the highly Ingrian-influenced Kukkuzi Votic). These languages are not closely related genetically, as noted above; it is a paraphyletic grouping, consisting of all Finnic languages except the Northern ...
The Tartu dialect (Estonian: tartu keel) is a dialect of South Estonian spoken in Estonia, near the city of Tartu. It bears similarities to Mulgi , particularly the Tarvastu and Helme varieties. It has historically, along with northern Võro , been the basis for the South Estonian literary language.