Language/Standard-estonian

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Facts about Standard Estonian

• 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

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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

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_language

Estonian Dictionaries

• 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-English dictionary

• Estonian-Russian dictionary

• Estonian-Latvian & Latvian-Estonian dictionary

• Lingea: Estonian-English dictionary & multilingual

• Ibs: Estonian-English dictionary

• Aare: Estonian-English dictionary

• Iate: multilingual terminological dictionary (European Union)

• Estonian-French Dictionary

• Estonian-Latin dictionary

• 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)

• Sources: https://www.lexilogos.com/english/estonian_dictionary.htm

Free Standard Estonian Lessons

• Grammar Lessons

• Vocabulary Lessons

• Pronunciation Lessons

• Culture Lessons

Language Exchange

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Forum

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Tools

• Have your text CORRECTED in Standard Estonian

• VIDEOS to learn Standard Estonian

Marketplace

• Buy or Sell SERVICES related to Standard Estonian

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