Estonian
Finnic language
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Summary
Estonian is a natural language[1]. Estonian ranks in the top 9% of natural language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,794 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Estonia[3]
- Instance of: macrolanguage[4], modern language[5]
- Subclass of: Finnic[6], Uralic[7]
- Writing system: Latin script[8], Estonian Braille[9]
- Commons category: Estonian language[10]
- Wikimedia language code: et[11]
- Has part(s): Standard Estonian[12], Northeastern Coastal Estonian[13], South Estonian[14]
- Topic's main category: Category:Estonian language[15]
- Language regulatory body: Institute of the Estonian Language[16]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 1,251,770[17]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[19], Small Soviet Encyclopedia[20]
- Topic has template: Q112972999[21], Q138754673[22]
- Native label: eesti keel[23]
- Short name: эстонский[24], eestin kieli[25], эстойнаг[26], естонски[27]
- Indigenous to: Estonians[28], Estonia[29]
- Female form of label: la langue estonienne[30]
- Studied by: Estonian studies[31]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/EST[32], https://uralic.clld.org/languages/10[33], https://afbo.info/languages/4[34]
- Has grammatical case: nominative case[35], genitive case[36], partitive case[37], inessive case[38], illative case[39], elative case[40], adessive case[41], ablative case[42], allative case[43], translative case[44], terminative case[45], essive case[46], abessive case[47], comitative case[48]
Why It Matters
Estonian has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[49] Estonian is known by 68 alternative names across languages and contexts.[50]