Estonian
eesti keel
Estonian is a Uralic language spoken in Estonia, Russia, and Latvia, by about 1.3 million people.
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Estonian (eesti keel [ˈeːsʲti ˈkeːl] ) is a Finnic language of the Uralic language family, and is the official language of Estonia. Estonian is written using the Latin alphabet 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.
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Written down
Kõik inimesed sünnivad vabadena ja võrdsetena oma väärikuselt ja õigustelt. Neile on antud mõistus ja südametunnistus ja nende suhtumist üksteisesse peab kandma vendluse vaim.
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).
Words in Estonian
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| mother | ema | |
| father | isa | |
| child | laps | |
| man | mees | |
| woman | naine | |
| person | isik | |
| name | nimi | |
| friend | sõber | |
| eye | silm | |
| ear | kõrv | |
| nose | nina | |
| tooth | hammas | |
| tongue | keel | |
| hand | käsi | |
| heart | süda | |
| head | pea | |
| blood | veri | |
| bone | luu | |
| skin | nahk | |
| knee | põlv | |
| breast | rind | |
| liver | maks | |
| water | vesi | |
| fire | tuli | |
| sun | päike | |
| moon | kuu | |
| star | täht | |
| sky | taevas | |
| rain | vihm | |
| snow | lumi |
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Vocabulary
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
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