Estonian language

Estonian
Estonian
eesti keel
Native to	Estonia
Ethnicity	Estonians
Native speakers	1.2 million (2022)
Language family	Uralic Finnic Southern Finnic Estonian; ; ;
Dialects	North (Standard) Estonian; Northeastern coastal Estonian;
Writing system	Latin (Estonian alphabet); Estonian Braille
Official status
Official language in	Estonia; European Union
Regulated by	Institute of the Estonian Language / Eesti Keele Instituut
Language codes
ISO 639-1	et
ISO 639-2	est
ISO 639-3	est – inclusive code; Individual code:; ekk – (Northern/Standard) Estonian
Glottolog	esto1258
Linguasphere	41-AAA-d
	Estonian is official in Estonia (dark green) and in the European Union (light green)
	This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA.

Estonian (eesti keel [ˈeːsʲti ˈkeːl] ^ⓘ) is a Finnic language and the official language of Estonia. It is written in the Latin script and is the first language of the majority of the country's population; it is also an official language of the European Union. Estonian is spoken natively by about 1.1 million people: 922,000 people in Estonia and 160,000 elsewhere.^[2]^[3]

^ Estonian at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
(Northern/Standard) Estonian at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^ "Estonian in a World Context". Estonica. Archived from the original on 27 September 2018. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
^ "The Estonian Language". Estonica.org. Retrieved 15 October 2022.

[e25-1] Estonian at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
(Northern/Standard) Estonian at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

[2] "Estonian in a World Context". Estonica. Archived from the original on 27 September 2018. Retrieved 26 September 2018.

[3] "The Estonian Language". Estonica.org. Retrieved 15 October 2022.

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Estonian
eesti keel
Native to	Estonia
Ethnicity	Estonians
Native speakers	1.2 million (2022)^[1]
Language family	Uralic Finnic Southern Finnic Estonian
Dialects	North (Standard) Estonian Northeastern coastal Estonian
Writing system	Latin (Estonian alphabet) Estonian Braille
Official status
Official language in	Estonia European Union
Regulated by	Institute of the Estonian Language / Eesti Keele Instituut
Language codes
ISO 639-1	`et`
ISO 639-2	`est`
ISO 639-3	`est` – inclusive code Individual code: `ekk` – (Northern/Standard) Estonian
Glottolog	`esto1258`
Linguasphere	`41-AAA-d`
Estonian is official in Estonia (dark green) and in the European Union (light green)
This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA.