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Welcome to the Standard Estonian learning page!

You will find below many free resources to learn and practice this language.


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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-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)


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 FormationEstonian Language HistoryHistorical OverviewWork and ProfessionsHome and FurnitureConjunctionsPrepositionsTravel PhrasesModes of TransportationTraditional Music and DanceHolidays and CelebrationsEating OutFood and DrinksAdjective DeclensionHobbies and Free TimeDaily RoutinePast TensePresent TenseTelling TimeNumbers 1 100Personal PronounsNoun CasesIntroducing YourselfCommon GreetingsBasic Sentence StructureAlphabet and PronunciationEstonian entrepreneurship and start upsEstonian multiculturalism and diversityEstonian international relationsEstonian environment and sustainability

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