Estonian Language Studies

Estonian is the official language of the Republic of Estonia. Compared to other European languages, the Estonian language is one of the smallest with regard to the number of speakers. However, if we take into account that 95% of languages (ca 4,500 languages spoken in the world today) have less than 100,000 speakers, Estonian is a relatively widely spoken language.

Estonian belongs to the Finno-Ugric language family. Besides Estonian, the largest Finno-Ugric languages are Hungarian (14 million speakers), Finnish (5 million speakers) and Mordvin (900,000 speakers).

There are various options to learn Estonian:

If you are interested in studying the Estonian language more thoroughly, the University of Tartu offers an English-taught master's programme in Estonian and Finno-Ugric Languages.