Estonian 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.
Evar Saar is an Estonian linguist, journalist, toponymist a Võro language activist. He has traveled extensively around the historical county of Võrumaa and documented the original names of all major geographical features there. In total, he has collected over 50,000 names from the Võro language spoken in Southern Estonia.
Tõnu Õnnepalu, also known by the pen names Emil Tode and Anton Nigov, is an Estonian poet, author and translator.
Paul Ariste was an Estonian linguist renowned for his studies of the Finno-Ugric languages, Yiddish and Baltic Romani language.
Vaino Vahing, was an Estonian writer, prosaist, psychiatrist and playwright. Starting from 1973, he was a member of the Estonian Writers Union.
Institute of the Estonian Language is the official language-regulatory authority of the Estonian language. It is located in the capital city of Estonia, Tallinn. Its stated formal goal is to contribute to the long-term survival of the Estonian language. The Institute researches modern Estonian, the history of the Estonian language, Estonian dialects and Finno-Ugric cognate languages.
Tarmo Teder is an Estonian writer, poet and critic.
Liis Koger is an Estonian painter and poet based in Tallinn.
Kaur Alttoa is an Estonian art historian and cultural historian.
Sino-Uralic or Sino-Finnic is a long-range linguistic proposal that links the Sinitic languages (Chinese) and the Uralic languages. Sino-Uralic is proposed as an alternative to the Sino-Tibetan family and is at odds with mainstream comparative linguistics, which firmly includes the Sinitic languages in the Sino-Tibetan family. The proposal has been brought forward by the Chinese linguist Jingyi Gao, based on works by 19th century linguists such as Karl August Hermann. Gao suggested the proto-population could have been lived in Neolithic China and carried the Haplogroup N, claiming that a common proto-language could have been spoken around 5.000-10.000 years ago. However, connections with the Uralic and other language families are generally seen as speculative.
Linnar Priimägi is an Estonian art historian, journalist, literary critic, poet and actor.
Ülo Mattheus is an Estonian writer, journalist, civil servant and editor.
Arnold Kask was an Estonian linguist.
Haldur Õim is an Estonian linguist.
Helle Metslang is an Estonian linguist.
Paul Alvre was an Estonian linguist.
Andra Teede is an Estonian poet and dramaturge.
ABD ehk Luggemise-Ramat Lastele is an Estonian alphabet book by Otto Wilhelm Masing published in Tartu in 1795.
Margit Sutrop is an Estonian philosopher, ethicist, academic, and politician. She is a member of XIV Riigikogu.
Reet Kasik is an Estonian linguist.
