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Language code: est

Technical information about ISO 639 language code est

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The table below provides technical details for the Estonian language, designated by the est code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

est

Name

Official

Estonian

Native

Eesti

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Northern EstonianSouthern Estonian
Related languages
FinnishVoticLivonianVepsKarelian
Key facts
Belongs to the Finnic branch of the Uralic language familyUses 14 grammatical cases and no grammatical genderDistinguishes three lengths (short, long, overlong) in both vowels and consonantsSpelling is largely phonemic and employs a 27-letter Latin alphabetThe earliest known written Estonian appears in 13th-century religious texts.
Sample phrase

Tere, kuidas läheb?

Character encodings

ISO 8859-4, ISO 8859-13, Windows 1257, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Estonian language, identified by the code est, falls under the 'Macrolanguage' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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