| Languages of Estonia[1] | |
|---|---|
| Official | Estonian |
| Minority | Võro, Seto, Russian, Swedish, German, Ukrainian, Polish |
| Foreign | Russian (56%) English (50%)[2][3] Finnish (21%) |
| Signed | Estonian Sign Language, Russian Sign Language |
| Keyboard layout | |
The official language of Estonia is Estonian, a Uralic language of the Finnic branch, which is related to Finnish. It is unrelated to the bordering Russian and Latvian languages, both of which are Indo-European (more specifically East Slavic and Baltic, respectively).
- ^ "Europeans and their Languages" (PDF). Ec.europa.eu. February 2006. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
- ^ "SPECIAL EUROBAROMETER 386 Europeans and their Languages" (PDF). Ec.europa.eu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-01-06.
- ^ More English spoken by young people than Russian, and English is rising in popularity while Russian is decreasing. Source: British Council's English Next report (2006), p. 93."Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-02-12. Retrieved 2015-02-07.
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