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Share of ethnic Estonians by Estonian locality based on the 2011 census. Russian is by far the most spoken minority language in the country. There are towns in Estonia with large concentrations of Russian speakers and there are towns where Estonian speakers are in the minority (especially in the northeast, e.g. Narva).
The speakers of the two major historical languages spoken in Estonia, North and South Estonian, are thought by some linguists to have arrived in Estonia in at least two different migration waves over two millennia ago, both groups having spoken considerably different vernacular; [6] South Estonian might be a Finnic language rather than a ...
This is a list of European languages by the number of native speakers in Europe only. List. Rank Name ... Estonian: 1,165,400 [56] 50 Low German (Low Saxon) 1,000,000 ...
Number of speakers Established Immigrant Total Percent [note 1] Total Mean Median ... Estonia: 7 13 20 0.28 1,541,760 85,653 44,250
Estonians or Estonian people (Estonian: eestlased) are a Baltic Finnic ethnic group who speak the Estonian language. Their nation state is Estonia . The Estonian language is spoken as the first language by the vast majority of Estonians; it is closely related to other Finnic languages , e.g. Finnish , Karelian and Livonian .
The main Uralic languages in number of speakers are Hungarian (12-13 million), Finnish (5.4 million) and Estonian (1.1 million), that are also national and official languages of sovereign states. Geographical distribution of the Uralic languages
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South Estonian today According to the 2021 Estonia census [14] there were 128,590 speakers of South Estonian: 97,320 speakers of Võro (72,240 when excluding 25,080 Seto speakers), 17,310 Tartu language speakers and 13,960 Mulgi speakers. South Estonian began to undergo a revival in the late 1980s. Today, South Estonian is used in the works of ...