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* 1220 – Sweden is defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula.
* In another Baltic-Finnic language, Estonian, it is called the West Sea ( Läänemeri ), with the correct geography ( the sea is west of Estonia ).
It is derived from " Taani linn ", meaning " Danish town " in Estonian.
An obvious place to look for documentation is in the Estonian city of Tallinn, the site of the legendary battle.
Dance of Death, also variously called Danse Macabre ( French ), Danza de la Muerte ( Spanish ), Dansa de la Mort ( Catalan ), Danza Macabra ( Italian ), Dança da Morte ( Portuguese ), Totentanz ( German ), Dodendans ( Dutch ), Surmatants ( Estonian ), is an artistic genre of late-medieval allegory on the universality of death: no matter one's station in life, the Dance of Death unites all.
Legislative power is vested in the Estonian parliament.
Estonian ( eesti keel ; ) is the official language of Estonia, spoken natively by about 1. 1 million people in Estonia and tens of thousands in various migrant communities.
The first extant Estonian book is a bilingual German-Estonian translation of the Lutheran catechism by S. Wanradt and J. Koell dating to 1535, during the Protestant Reformation period.
Peterson was the first student at the then German-language University of Tartu to acknowledge his Estonian origin, is commonly regarded as a herald of Estonian national literature and considered the founder of modern Estonian poetry.
Estonian has been influenced by Swedish, German ( initially Middle Low German, later also standard German ), and Russian, though it is not related to them genetically.
Like Finnish and Hungarian, Estonian is a somewhat agglutinative language, but unlike them, it has lost the vowel harmony of the hypothetical Proto-Uralic language, although in older texts the vowel harmony can still be recognized.
Although the Estonian orthography is generally guided by phonemic principles, with each grapheme corresponding to one phoneme, there are some historical and morphological deviations from this: for example the initial letter ' h ' in words, preservation of the morpheme in declension of the word ( writing b, g, d in places where p, k, t is pronounced )
This is primarily because the Estonian language has borrowed nearly one third of its vocabulary from Germanic languages, mainly from Low Saxon ( Middle Low German ) during the period of German rule, and High German ( including standard German ).
As many of the early Germanic loanwords into Estonian were Saxon, their cognates can be found in Anglo-Saxon English, for example, ' nurk ' ( corner ) is found as ' nook ' in English and ' koer ' ( dog ) is ' cur ' in English.
It is best suited for advanced beginners and intermediate students of Estonian.
Finland's main language, Finnish, is related to Estonian, and there is and has been a certain feeling of kinship.
The Finnish and Estonian languages are both part of the non-Indo-European Uralic languages ; they share a similar grammar as well as several individual words, though sometimes as false friends: e. g. the Finnish word for ' south ', etelä is close to the Estonian word edel, but the latter means south-west.

Estonian and distantly
The Estonian language belongs to the Finnic group of the Uralic languages and Estonian is closely related to Finnish and distantly related to Hungarian.
The Nenets languages are classified in the Uralic language family, making them distantly related to some European national languages – namely Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian – in addition to other minority languages spoken in Russia.

Estonian and related
The name " Russia ", together with the Finnish Ruotsi ( which means " Sweden ") and Estonian Rootsi ( which means " Sweden "), are found by some scholars to be related to Roslagen.
Finnish and Sami languages are related to each other, as well as to Hungarian, Estonian and several minority languages spoken in Western Russia, but are entirely unrelated to Swedish, Norwegian and Danish.
They speak the Sami language, a non-Indo-European language of the Uralic family which is related to Finnish and Estonian.
Camper Van Beethoven was preceded by several related garage bands based in Redlands, including Sitting Duck and the Estonian Gauchos ( featuring future Cracker guitarist Johnny Hickman ).
* Ukko (" old man ") the god of the sky and thunder, related to Thor ( Estonian Taara ).
Also related to Estonian Vanemuine.
It is closely related to Estonian.
For example, contemporary Estonian, which is so closely related to Finnish that the two languages are mutually intelligible, has shifted towards the fusional type.
" Estonian runo-song has the same basic form as the Finnish variety to which it is related: the line has eight beats, the melody rarely spans more than the first five notes of a diatonic scale and its short phrases tend to use descending patterns " ( Cronshaw, 16 ).
In the related Estonian language ' Hiis ' still means sacred forest.
Confusingly, the Hungarian language is not a Turkic language ( it is a Uralic language related to languages like the Finnish language and Estonian language ) and was not spoken by the Huns.
There is also related a beer on the Swedish island of Gotland ( known as Gotlandsdricke, Gotlandsdricku or Dricku ) and the Estonian island of Saaremaa ( known as " Koduõlu " or " Taluõlu ").
They spoke the Uralic Livonian language, a language which is closely related to Estonian and Finnish.
Also, contact was made with related peoples such as the Estonians and the Finns — spurred by the Finnish promotion of closer ties with the kindred Finnic peoples — and in 1939, the Livonian Community Centre in Mazirbe ( Livonian: Irē ) was founded with subsidies from the Estonian and Finnish governments.
Ajatar is related to the Lithuanian Aitvaras and the Estonian Äi, Äijo or Äijattar.
Jumala as a " god of the sky " is associated with the related Estonian Jumal, Mari Jumo, Udmurt Inmar, Komi Jen, Nenets Num, and Bjarmian Jomali and is thought to stem from an ancient Uralic " god of the sky " tradition.
This category is for articles related to the Kalevipoeg from the Estonian mythology and literature.

Estonian and Hungarian
The Estonian name lihavõtted and the Hungarian húsvét, however, literally mean the taking of the meat, relating to the end of the Great Lent fasting period.
The Uralic languages, which include Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian, also have a significant presence in Europe.
A computer-based course in colloquial Estonian using English, German, French, Russian, Italian, Dutch, Romanian, Greek, or Hungarian as the source language.
In Turkish, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Sallan, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish the order is reversed ; the amount is followed by a fixed space and the ISO 4217 code:
In European languages other than English the corresponding words for " sect ", such as secte ( French ), secta ( Spanish ), seita ( Portuguese ), sekta ( Polish, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Serbian ), sekt ( Danish, Estonian, Norwegian, Swedish ), sekte ( Dutch ), Sekte ( German ) or szekta ( Hungarian ), are used sometimes to refer to a harmful religious or political sect, similar to how English-speakers popularly use the word " cult ".
The healthiest Uralic languages in terms of the number of native speakers are Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian, Mari and Udmurt.
In 1671, Swedish scholar Georg Stiernhielm commented on the similarities of Sami, Estonian and Finnish, and also on a few similar words between Finnish and Hungarian, while the German scholar Martin Vogel tried to establish a relationship between Finnish, Sami, and Hungarian.
This case carries the basic meaning of " in ": for example, " in the house " is " talo · ssa " in Finnish, " maja · s " in Estonian, " etxea · n " in Basque, " nam · e " in Lithuanian, " sāt · ā " in Latgalian and " ház · ban " in Hungarian.
Illative ( abbreviated ; from Latin illatus " brought in ") is, in the Finnish language, Estonian language and the Hungarian language, the third of the locative cases with the basic meaning of " into ( the inside of )".
The other locative cases in Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian are:
In Uralic languages, such as Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian, the adessive case ( abbreviated ; from Latin adesse " to be present ") is the fourth of the locative cases with the basic meaning of " on ".
For example, Estonian laud ( table ) and laual ( on the table ), Hungarian asztal and asztalnál ( at the table ).
The other locative cases in Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian are:
Among other languages, it is found in Korean, Finnish, Hungarian, Mongolian, Estonian, Japanese and many Australian Aboriginal languages.
Similar words exist in other languages: Dom ( German ), Dóm ( Hungarian & Slovakian ), Dôme ( French ), Domkirke ( Danish ), Dómkirkja ( Icelandic ), Domo ( portuguese ) Domkyrka ( Swedish ), Domkirke ( Norwegian ), Doms ( Latvian ), Toomkirik ( Estonian ), Tum ( Polish ), and Tuomiokirkko ( Finnish ).
Likewise, it is still Wit-Rusland in Dutch, Hviderusland in Danish, Hviterussland or Kviterussland in Norwegian, Vitryssland in Swedish, Բելառուս in Armenian, Λευκορωσία in Greek, " Biélorussie " in French, " Bielorrusia " in Spanish, " Bielorrússia " in Portuguese, Valko-Venäjä in Finnish, Valgevene in Estonian, Baltkrievija in Latvian, Baltarusija in Lithuanian and Fehéroroszország in Hungarian.
In addition, there are Armenian Scouts and Estonian Scouts in Exile in New York City, and Külföldi Magyar Cserkészszövetség Hungarian Scouting maintains two troops in New York City and one in Buffalo.
Spurgeon's works have been translated into many languages, including: Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Castilian ( for the Argentine Republic ), Chinese, Kongo, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, French, Gaelic, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Kaffir, Karen, Lettish, Maori, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Syriac, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, and Welsh, with a few sermons in Moon's and Braille type for the blind.
The dual was a standard feature of the Proto-Uralic language, and lives on in Sami languages and Samoyedic languages, while other branches like Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian have lost it.
* The Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar, Finnish, Swedish, Icelandic, Rotuman, German, Estonian, and Hungarian alphabets use the letter Ö instead of Ø. Hungarian uses Ő for the same sound lengthened.

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