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| Baltic-Finnic | Estonian ·  Finnish ·  Ingrian ·  Karelian ·  Livonian ·  Veps ·  Votic ·  Võro
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| Permic |  Komi ·  Udmurt
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| Ugric |  Hungarian ·  Khanty ·  Mansi
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An Introduction to the Language
Estonian is the second largest Finnic language on earth. Estonian, like all of its brothers and sisters, is an agglutinating language which means that sentences are formed by adding sometimes multiple affixes to roots to express meaning. However, unlike said siblings, does not have vowel harmony - one of the only Finno-Ugric languages without it. Because of Estonia's recent history of occupation by foreign powers, the Estonian language has had a great deal of influence from Finnish (mostly), German (syntax) and Russian (vocabulary). Estonian is a lesser studied language than Finnish because of it's smaller pool of speakers, but is still a language which thrives in the rich culture found in Estonia.
Family
Uralic
- Finno-Ugric
- Finno-Permic
- Finno-Volgaic
- Finno-Lappic
- Baltic-Finnic
- Estonian
- Baltic-Finnic
- Finno-Lappic
- Finno-Volgaic
- Finno-Permic
Spoken in
Estonia and parts of Latvia by just over 1.3 million people.
