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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

et

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

Supported in Localizely

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

Estonia

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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