Estonian Mother Language Day
Description:
Estonian belongs to the Uralic languages and represents the Finno-Ugric languages, being part of the southern group of Baltic-Finnish languages. According to the number of speakers, it is one of the smallest languages spoken by about 1.1 million people, of which 950 thousand live in Estonia.
The Estonian language has three dialectical groups:
- North Estonian, which includes island, western, central and eastern dialects;
- South Estonian, which includes Mulk, Tartu and Voruz dialects;
A northeastern coastal dialect that shares many features with the Baltic-Finnish languages.
Estonian writing is based on the Latin alphabet. The alphabet has 32 letters.
The main rule to remember is to read as it is written. As for Estonian grammar, first of all, we are usually struck by the number of cases – there are 14 cases. There's no gender category.