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Languages

Languages of CIS peoples / Estonian

Translation from Estonian language to Russian and from Russian language to Estonian.

GMC Translation Service translation Center offers professional translations from Estonian language (or to Estonian). If you need a written translation, our Center’s highly qualified translators, correctors and managers will make sure that everything is done in time and in high-quality. We can guarantee premium quality of translation in various subjects: medicine, ecology, oil and gas production, food industry, management and marketing, finances, instrument engineering, automobile industry, different types of legal documentation, contracts, software instructions, manuals to household appliances and technology and etc.

Estonian is considered to be a Finno-Ugric family (the pribaltijsko-Finnish branch). If to look at a map of Europe, Estonia can be found easily in the northeast, and to be more specific – on the southern coast of the gulf of Finland. The population of this Baltic state makes about 1.5 million persons, 2/3 of which are ethnic Estonians.

Estonian languagewhich has become official in Estonia in the nineties of the twentieth century bears the impression of continuous battles with armies of neighboring countries. Crusaders, Finns, Danes, Swedes, Poles and Russian, together with representatives of other Baltic tribes, have at various times left a trace in Estonian language in the form of considerate amounts of words borrowed. The first written sources in Estonian language lead to XIII century, and in 1535 the first book is printed in Estonian language. Only in the XX century the standard Estonian language has arisen on the basis of two dialects (northern and southern). Despite of an impressive amount of Russian-speaking population, Estonian language dominates in all fields of activity (education, mechanics, business etc)

Did you know…

  • The capitol of Estonia, Tallinn has such narrow streets that two medieval ladies couldn't fit in them, involuntarily compelling their gentlemen to fight for the right to pass first.
  •  Before Christianization Estonia’s citizens were pagans.
  • Estonian cuisine has a minimum amount of seasonings and greens, and only certain dishes are seasoned:  to fish dill is added, to meat soups and broths celery is added, for cottage cheese caraway seeds. But a special sauce from milk and sour cream ("kastmed") is added to almost every Estonian dish.
  • During different historical periods Tallinn (etymologically "the Danish city") was known to Russians as Kolyvan, Lidenis, Revel.
 Estonian Santa Claus has a pretty name Jõuluvana or "Old man of Christmas.

Languages of CIS peoples