Estonian language
E15029
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.
Aliases (3)
- Estonian ×3
- Modern Estonian ×2
- Standard 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 →
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 (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form: "Standard Estonian"
this entity surface form: "Standard Estonian"
this entity surface form: "Estonian"
this entity surface form: "Modern Estonian"
this entity surface form: "Estonian"
this entity surface form: "Modern Estonian"