Language code: et
Technical information about ISO 639 language code et
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The table below provides technical details for the Estonian language, designated by the et code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Estonian Native Eesti |
| Family | Finnic |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | Northern EstonianSouthern Estonian |
| Related languages | FinnishKarelianVepsLivonian |
| Key facts | Has 14 grammatical casesTraditional vowel harmony has largely disappearedFeatures three contrastive phonemic lengths (short, long, overlong) for both vowels and consonantsPrimary stress is on the first syllable, but intonation helps distinguish length degreesThe earliest known written Estonian sentence appears in the 13th-century Liber Census Daniae. |
| Sample phrase | Tere, kuidas sul läheb? |
| Character encodings | ISO 8859-4, ISO 8859-13, Windows 1257, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 |
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Estonian belongs to the Uralic language family, or more specifically, to the Finnic subgroup. It is the official language of Estonia and is written using the Latin script (Estonian alphabet). It is estimated that there are more than 1.2 million speakers worldwide.
Language presence globally
Speakers
950K
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Estonian speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
Related locale codes
et-EE – Estonian (Estonia)
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- GitHub integration
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ