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

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

** Estonian puu " tree, wood " ( singular ) – puu < u > d </ u > " the trees, woods " ( nominative plural )

For example, I have a house in Estonian would be Mul on maja in which mul is in the adessive case, on is the third singular of to be ( is ), and maja is in nominative, not accusative.

The Estonian version, with regional variations in respect to fillings, compared to the Latvians, is referred to as " pirukad " (" pirukas " in the singular ).

In the Estonian language comitative is also used to denote when something is used as an implement-kirvega ( with axe / using an axe ) or as a means of transport laevaga ( by boat ).

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.

A parliamentary republic was formed by the Estonian Constituent Assembly and the first Constitution of Estonia was adopted on June 15, 1920.

The Omakaitse ( Home Guard ) was an organisation formed by the local population of Estonia on the basis of the Estonian Defence League and the forest brothers resistance movement active in the Eastern Front, 3 July 1941 – 17 September 1944.

who in an Estonian legend carried rocks to her husband's grave that formed the Toompea hill.

Finnish Infantry Regiment 200 AKA ( Estonian: soomepoisid ) was formed out of Estonian volunteers in Finland.

After resignation of Laar, Reform Party and Estonian Centre Party formed a coalition that lasted until next parliamentary election, 2003.

On January 28, 2002 the new government was formed from a coalition of the centre-right Estonian Reform Party and the more left wing Centre Party, with Siim Kallas from the Reform Party of Estonia as Prime Minister.

In Finnish elative is typically formed by adding " sta / stä ", in Estonian by adding " st " to the genitive stem.

An example from Estonian is " majasse " and " majja " ( into the house ), formed from " maja " ( a house ).

During the time of the Russian civil war from 1917 to 1921, many young Baltic Germans signed voluntarily into the newly formed Estonian and Latvian armies to help secure the independence of these countries from Russia.

* Nexus ( Estonian band ), an Estonian pop band formed in 2003 which split up in 2006

From the mouth of the Vistula river and the Prussian region, the Teutonic Knights by force continued the eastward migration up to Estonian Reval ( Tallinn ), Germans also settled in the mountainous border regions of Bohemia and Moravia and formed a distinct social class of citizens in towns like Prague, Havlíčkův Brod ( Deutsch-Brod ), Olomouc ( Olmütz ) and Brno ( Brünn ).

Local ethnographic bands were formed after Leiko, a choir from Värska, came together in 1964, while a less regionally-distinct form of Estonian folk music was soon promoted, Estonian Ring Dance beginning with the formation of Leigarid in 1969.

In January 2002, the Centre Party and the Estonian Reform Party formed a new governmental coalition where Centre Party got 8 ministerial seats ( Minister of Defense, Education, Social Affairs, Finances, Economy & Communications, Interior, Agriculture and Minister of integration and national minorities ).

Then in 1941, the Nazi Germans invaded and took over the country, which formed a brief respite for many of the population ( except, of course, Estonian Jews ) but Estonians soon realised that the German Nazis were as bad as the Russian Communists.

A few months later, using the interval between the Red Army's retreat and the arrival of the Imperial German Army, the Salvation Committee of the Estonian National Council Maapäev issued the Estonian Declaration of Independence in Tallinn on February 24, 1918 and formed the Estonian Provisional Government.

During the perestroika era the Estonian Social Democratic Party ( Eesti Sotsiaaldemokraatlik Partei, ESDP ) was formed as Estonia's social-democratic movements merged in 1990.

ESDP formed an electoral alliance with the agrarian Estonian Rural Centre Party ( formed in 1990 ) for 1992 and 1995 elections.

On August 1, 1923, an armoured train regiment ( Estonian: soomusrongirügement ) was formed in Tapa with two armoured wagons: the Kapten Irv, which served in the Estonian War of Independence, and the Onu Tom.