Estonian language

E15029

Finnic language Uralic language national language standardized language

The Estonian language is a Finno-Ugric language spoken primarily in Estonia, closely related to Finnish and known for its complex grammar and rich vowel system.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Estonian	10
Estonian language canonical	10
Standard Estonian	3
Modern Estonian	2

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Finnic language ⓘ Uralic language ⓘ national language ⓘ standardized language ⓘ
belongsTo	Finnic languages ⓘ surface form: Baltic-Finnic languages
closelyRelatedTo	Finnish language ⓘ
country	Estonia ⓘ
direction	left-to-right ⓘ
family	Uralic languages ⓘ
hasCaseSystem	true ⓘ
hasConsonantGradation	yes ⓘ
hasFeature	agglutinative morphology ⓘ extensive use of cases for syntactic relations ⓘ lack of grammatical gender ⓘ no articles ⓘ postpositions and prepositions ⓘ rich vowel inventory ⓘ
hasPhonemicLengthContrast	three-way quantity distinction ⓘ
hasVowelHarmony	partially ⓘ
historicalStage	Middle Estonian ⓘ Estonian language self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Modern Estonian Old Estonian ⓘ
influencedBy	German ⓘ surface form: German language Russian language ⓘ Swedish language ⓘ
ISO639-1Code	et ⓘ
ISO639-2Code	est ⓘ
ISO639-3Code	est ⓘ
languageRegulator	Institute of the Estonian Language ⓘ
lexicalSimilarityWithFinnish	high ⓘ
majorDialect	North Estonian ⓘ South Estonian ⓘ
moreDistantlyRelatedTo	Hungarian language ⓘ
numberOfGrammaticalCases	14 ⓘ
officialLanguageOf	Estonia ⓘ
primaryTerritory	Estonia ⓘ
regionalVariety	Seto ⓘ South Estonian language ⓘ surface form: Võro
spokenBy	ethnic Estonians ⓘ
standardizationPeriod	19th century ⓘ
standardVariety	Standard Estonian ⓘ
statusInEuropeanUnion	official EU language ⓘ
subfamily	Finnic languages ⓘ
usedIn	administration in Estonia ⓘ education in Estonia ⓘ media in Estonia ⓘ
writingSystem	Latin script ⓘ
writingTraditionSince	13th century ⓘ

Referenced by (25)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Finnish language → closelyRelatedTo → Estonian language ⓘ

European Union → hasOfficialLanguage → Estonian language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Estonian

Finnic languages → hasMember → Estonian language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Standard Estonian

Estonian language → historicalStage → Estonian language self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Modern Estonian

Sami → relatedTo → Estonian language ⓘ

Estonia → demonym → Estonian language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Estonian

Uralic languages → hasMember → Estonian language ⓘ

Institute of the Estonian Language → field → Estonian language ⓘ

Middle Estonian → precedes → Estonian language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Modern Estonian

Proto-Finnic language → ancestorOf → Estonian language ⓘ

Livonian language → closelyRelatedTo → Estonian language ⓘ

Seto → differentFrom → Estonian language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Standard Estonian

Swedish Livonia → languageUsed → Estonian language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Estonian

Finno-Ugric languages → hasMember → Estonian language ⓘ

Andris → languageOfUse → Estonian language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Estonian

Riigikogu → officialLanguage → Estonian language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Estonian

Estonians → primaryLanguage → Estonian language ⓘ

Kristian → hasLanguageOfUse → Estonian language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Estonian

Estonian National Museum → operatesInLanguage → Estonian language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Estonian

Estonian Navy → usesLanguage → Estonian language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Estonian

Narva → languageUsed → Estonian language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Estonian

Finno-Ugric peoples → includesLanguage → Estonian language ⓘ

Government of Estonia → officialLanguage → Estonian language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Estonian

Mulgi dialect → distinctFrom → Estonian language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Standard Estonian