Uralic family
Estonian
1500 CE – today Living
Estonian (1500 CE – today) is a living Uralic language. Lineage: Proto-Uralic → Proto-Finnic → Estonian.
See Estonian on the interactive map- Speakers
- 1.1M (1,100,000)
- ISO 639-3
- ekk
- Glottocode
- esto1258
Finnic branch. Closely related to Finnish but mutually only partially intelligible. Standardised through religious texts from the 16th c. onwards.
Lineage
- Proto-Uralicc. 4,000 BCE – 2,500 BCE
- Proto-Finnicc. 500 BCE – 500 CE
- Estonian1500 CE – today
Sister languages 4
Also descended from Proto-Finnic.