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 ).

Estonian language planners such as Ado Grenzstein ( a journalist active in Estonia in the 1870s – 90s ) tried to use formation ex nihilo, Urschöpfung ; i. e. they created new words out of nothing.

* Watch and listen live Estonian television and radio broadcasts in the Estonian language

A computer-based course in colloquial Estonian using English, German, French, Russian, Italian, Dutch, Romanian, Greek, or Hungarian as the source language.

* Estonian language course

In the Estonian language singular comitative is formed by adding the suffix '- ga ' to the genitive in case of singular:

In spoken Finnish, this abbreviates to a clitic very similar to the Estonian comitative ,-nkaa ( via-nkans ).

* 1220 – Sweden is defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula.

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.

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 is distantly related to Hungarian.

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.

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 )

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.

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.

Estonian " dotted vowels " ä, ö, ü are similar to German, but these are also distinct letters, not like German umlauted letters.

The parliament also appoints the president of the Bank of Estonia, the Chief of the Headquarters of the Estonian Defense, the Comptroller General of Estonia, the Chancellor of Justice of Estonia and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Estonia, all on the proposal of the President of Estonia.

The Uralic languages, which include Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian, also have a significant presence in Europe.

* Estonian sina / Finnish sinä ( singular you ) and Turkish sen ( singular you ) ( see also: Ural – Altaic languages )

Russian, Finnish and Estonian also have a number of Norse loanwords ; the words Rus and Russia, according to one theory, may be named after the Rus ' people, a Norse tribe ; see Rus ( name ).

Albanian, Arabic, Assyrian ( VSO and VOS are also followed, depending on the person ), Berber, Bulgarian, Chinese, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Italian, Ganda, Greek, Hausa, Hebrew, Javanese, Kashmiri, Khmer, Latvian, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Quiche, Rotuman, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Vietnamese, Yoruba and Zulu are examples of languages that can follow an SVO pattern.

It has been also suggested that in the context the meaning of linda in the archaic Estonian language, that is similar to lidna in Votic, had the same meaning as linna or linn later on meaning a castle or town in English.

It was also the setting for the foundation of the Society of Estonian Writers in 1872.

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.

By 1981, Russian was taught in the first grade of Estonian-language schools and was also introduced into Estonian pre-school teaching.

Orthodox missionaries also worked successfully among the Estonians from the 10th to the 12th centuries founding the Estonian Orthodox Church.

Ukko, sometimes also Äijä or Äijö ( Finnish: male grandparent, old man, also thunder ), parallel in Estonian mythology to Uku, is the god of the sky, weather, harvest and thunder in Finnish mythology.

Some bands are also known to highlight more exotic instruments from their ethnic background or country, including Skyforger's use of the Latvian kokle, Metsatöll's use of the Estonian torupill, Korpiklaani's use of the Finnish kantele, Eluveitie's use of the hurdy-gurdy, and Orphaned Land's use of the oud and saz.

After the Estonian War of Independence, Estonia had around 120, 000 M / 1891s in stock, later the Kaitseliit, the Estonian national guard, received some Finnish M28 / 30 rifles, a few modernised variants were also made by the Estonian Armory ;

In English ( but also in Danish, Dutch, German, Lithuanian, Swedish and Estonian ), " Holland " is informally used as a name for the whole of the Netherlands.

The Estonian language version of this page also includes an instrumental version.

He is also a Collar of the Estonian Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, a recipient of the Polish Order of the White Eagle ( 1993 ) and a Knight Grand Cross of the Croatian Grand Order of King Tomislav.

Estonian Swedes are also known as " aibofolke " ( meaning island people in Swedish ) or " rannarootslased " ( meaning coastal Swedes in Estonian ).