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The Learned Estonian Society (Estonian: Õpetatud Eesti Selts, shortened ÕES; German: Gelehrte Estnische Gesellschaft, shortened GEG) is Estonia's oldest scholarly organisation, and was formed at the University of Tartu in 1838. [1] [2] Its charter was to study Estonia's history and pre-history, its language, literature and folklore.
Estonian belongs to the Finnic branch of the Uralic language family. Other Finnic languages include Finnish and some minority languages spoken around the Baltic Sea and in northwestern Russia. Estonian is typically subclassified as a Southern Finnic language, and it is the second-most-spoken language among all the Finnic languages.
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.
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 ...
Edgar Valter Saks. Edgar Valter Saks (January 25, 1910 Tartu – April 11, 1984, Montreal) was an Estonian amateur historian and author. He was the Estonian exile government's minister of education in exile from 1971 until his death.
Download as PDF; Printable version ... Estonian vocabulary, i.e ., the vocabulary of the Estonian language, was influenced by ... (Learn how and when to remove this ...
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