In 1983, Estonian stage and film actress Ita Ever starred in the Russian language film adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel A Pocket Full of Rye ( using the Russian edition's translated title, The Secret of the Blackbirds ) as the character of Miss Marple.

* In another Baltic-Finnic language, Estonian, it is called the West Sea ( Läänemeri ), with the correct geography ( the sea is west of Estonia ).

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.

In 1525 the first book published in the Estonian language was printed.

A fragment from Peterson's poem " Kuu " expresses the claim reestablishing the birthright of the Estonian language:

After the Estonian War of Independence in 1919, the Estonian language became the state language of the newly independent country.

As of 1945, 97. 3 % of Estonia considered itself ethnic Estonian and spoke the language.

When Estonia was invaded and occupied by the Soviet Union in World War II, the status of the Estonian language changed to the first of two official languages ( Russian being the other one ).

The Russian language was termed as ‘ the language of friendship of nations ’ and was taught to Estonian children, sometimes as early as in kindergarten.

Although teaching Estonian to non-Estonians in schools was compulsory, in practice learning the language was often considered unnecessary.

Estonian went back to being the only state language in Estonia.

And again as in Latvia, today many of the remnant non-Estonians in Estonia have adopted the Estonian language ; about 40 % as of a 2000 census.

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.

These are sometimes considered either variants of a South Estonian language, or separate languages altogether.

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 ).

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Finnic languages, such as Finnish and Estonian, have two cases to mark objects, the accusative and the partitive case.

The ice-covered area during such a typical winter includes the Gulf of Bothnia, the Gulf of Finland, Gulf of Riga, Väinameri in the Estonian archipelago, the Stockholm archipelago and the Archipelago Sea.

Other languages also have a separate word for a full day, such as vuorokausi in Finnish, ööpäev in Estonian, dygn in Swedish, døgn in Danish, døgn in Norwegian, sólarhringur in Icelandic, etmaal in Dutch, doba in Polish, сутки ( sutki ) in Russian, суткі ( sutki ) in Belarusian, доба ́ ( doba ) in Ukrainian, денонощие in Bulgarian and יממה in Hebrew.

Lipponen made various controversial statements that angered groups such as Estonian refugees.

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 new terminal is intended for the service of one million passengers and the space liberated from low-cost airlines would pass into the disposition of Estonian Air and other traditional airlines, such as Lufthansa, SAS, LOT and CSA.

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 ".

There are etymological equivalents in the Finnic languages such as the Ingrian and Votic word sauna, Estonian saun and Livonian sōna.

As such, the Estonian alphabet has the letters Ä, Ö, and Ü ( A, O, and U with umlaut ), which represent the vowel sounds, and, respectively.

For the fricatives š, ž, and the affricate č only, the caron is used in the Finno-Lappic languages which use the Latin alphabet, such as Estonian, Finnish, Karelian and some Sami languages.

In Finnish and Estonian, it is limited to transcribing foreign names and loanwords ( albeit common loanwords such as šekki ' cheque '); the sounds ( and letters ) are native and common in Karelian and Sami.

Examples of agglutinative languages include the Uralic languages, such as Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian.

From there, it was adopted into the Croatian alphabet by Ljudevit Gaj in 1830, and other alphabets of languages, such as Bosnian, Belarusian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Slovak, Slovene, Serbian, Karelian, Sami, Veps, Sorbian and some forms of Bulgarian.

However, Kross ' acclaim internationally ( and nationally even after the regaining of Estonian independence ) show that his novels also deal with topics beyond such concerns ; rather, they deal with questions of mixed identities, loyalty, and belonging.

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.

It is found in some Uralic languages such as Finnish, Estonian, Northern Sámi, and the Samoyed language Nganasan.

Ironically, many other vodka brands brandishing symbols of Finnish culture, such as Leijona with the Lion of Finland or Suomi-Viina, are partially produced from Estonian or other foreign raw materials.

Ded Moroz, and on occasion the Belarus Dzied Maroz, are presented in the media as being in on-going détente with various counterparts from other cultures, such as the Estonian Santa Claus ( Jõuluvana or " Old man of Christmas "), the Finnish Santa Claus ( Joulupukki or " Yule Goat "), and other Santa Claus, Father Christmas, and Saint Nicholas figures.

His involvement in these concerns has led to his involvement in such organisations as the Estonian Geographical Association, Estonian Institute for Sustainable Development, Stockholm Environment Institute, Estonian Nature Fund, and Globe International Europe.

Carneiro is a frequent guest soloist with numerous orchestras: BBC National Orchestra of Wales, London Mozart Players, Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Régional de Basse-Normandie, Gävle Symfoniorkester and Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, to name but a few, working with conductors such as Petri Sakari, John Neschling, Ronald Zollman, Kaspar de Roo, Jurjen Hempel, Olari Elts, Andrew Parrott, Juanjo Mena, António Saiote, José Ramón Encinar, John Storgårds, Hamish McKeich, Max Rabinovitsj, Sarah Ioannides and Joseph Swensen, amongst others.

Because such political activities were then prohibited for Estonian exiles in Sweden, members of his government assumed their offices in Oslo, Norway.

The loss of initial before a short rounded vowel has also been proposed as a common innovation, but with counterexamples such as Estonian võtta-" to take " ( with preserved as its regular reflex due to the development > ) suggesting a date postdating not only the split between Finnic and Samic, but also of northern and southern Finnic ( cf.

Notable persons buried at the Suure-Jaani cemetery include the composers Artur Kapp, Villem Kapp and Mart Saar, and the painter Johann Köler, as well as Ado Johanson, the first Estonian professional agronomist.

* Ado ( Estonian name ), an Estonian given name