Language/Standard-estonian
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Facts about Standard Estonian[edit | edit source]
- Language code (ISO 639-3):
ekk
- Autonyms (how to write "Standard Estonian" in Standard Estonian):
Eesti keel
- Other names for "Standard Estonian":
Eesti, Eesti Kirjakeel
- The Standard Estonian language is spoken in:
Estonia
Estonian is a Uralic language of the Finnic branch spoken in Estonia. It is the official language of Estonia, spoken natively by about 1.1 million people; 922,000 people in Estonia and 160,000 outside Estonia.
It is a Southern Finnic language and is the second-most-spoken language among all the Finnic languages.
Sources[edit | edit source]
Estonian Dictionaries[edit | edit source]
• Eesti keele instituut: Estonian dictionaries
• Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat: dictionary of the Estonian language
• Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat: Estonian etymological dictionary
• Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat: Estonian orthographical dictionary (2006)
• Sünonüümisõnastik: dictionary of synonyms
• Esimene eesti slängi sõnaraamat: slang dictionary, by Mai Loog (1990)
• Estonian-Latvian & Latvian-Estonian dictionary
• Lingea: Estonian-English dictionary & multilingual
• Ibs: Estonian-English dictionary
• Aare: Estonian-English dictionary
• Iate: multilingual terminological dictionary (European Union)
• Loecsen: Estonian-English common phrases (+ audio)
• Goethe-Verlag: Estonian-English common phrases & illustrated vocabulary (+ audio)
• country names in Estonian
• Hiiumaa kohanimed [PDF] the origins of the place names of the island of Hiiumaa, by Marja Kallasmaa
• Saaremaa kohanimed [PDF] the origins of the place names of the island of Saaremaa, by Marja Kallasmaa
• Aus dem inneren und äusseren Leben der Ehsten: Estonian proverbs by Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann (1876) with translation into German (or scanned book)
• Võro-eesti synaraamat: dictionary of the dialect of Võru, (southeast of Estonia)
• The origins of stems of standard Estonian by Sven-Erik Soosaar, in Trames (2013)
• Die alten baltischen Lehnwörter im neuen estnischen etymologischen Wörterbuch: the old Baltic loanwords in the new Estonian etymological dictionary, by Santeri Junttila, in Baltu filoloģija (2014)
Free Standard Estonian Lessons[edit | edit source]
Language Exchange[edit | edit source]
Forum[edit | edit source]
Tools[edit | edit source]
Marketplace[edit | edit source]
Last Lessons[edit | edit source]
Question Words and Formation — Estonian Language History — Historical Overview — Work and Professions — Home and Furniture — Conjunctions — Prepositions — Travel Phrases — Modes of Transportation — Traditional Music and Dance — Holidays and Celebrations — Eating Out — Food and Drinks — Adjective Declension — Hobbies and Free Time — Daily Routine — Past Tense — Present Tense — Telling Time — Numbers 1 100 — Personal Pronouns — Noun Cases — Introducing Yourself — Common Greetings — Basic Sentence Structure — Alphabet and Pronunciation — Estonian entrepreneurship and start ups — Estonian multiculturalism and diversity — Estonian international relations — Estonian environment and sustainability