Institute of the Estonian Language / Eesti Keele Instituut
Language codes
ISO 639-1
et
ISO 639-2
est
ISO 639-3
est – inclusive code Individual codes: ekk – Standard Estonian vro – Võro
Glottolog
esto1258
Linguasphere
41-AAA-d
Estonian language[image reference needed]
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Estonian (eesti keel[ˈeːsʲtiˈkeːl]ⓘ) is a Uralic language belonging to the Finnic branch of the family and the official language of Estonia. It is written in the Latin script and is the first language of the majority of the country's population; it is also an official language of the European Union. Estonian is spoken natively by about 1.1 million people: 922,000 people in Estonia and 160,000 elsewhere.[2][3]
^Estonian at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Standard Estonian at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Võro at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^"Estonian in a World Context". Estonica. Archived from the original on 27 September 2018. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
^"The Estonian Language". Estonica.org. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
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