Which is harder Finnish or Estonian?
Same with Hindi, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be some vocabulary overlaps or familiar grammatical concepts. Estonian and Hungarian are more difficult than Finnish.
What is the longest word in Estonian?
A 42-letters word to express not less than “the tiredness one feels on the afternoon of the weekend birthday party”: this is the Estonian longest word which is actually composed of a combination of many words “birth day”, “week end”, “party”, “after lunch” and “tiredness”.
What language do they speak in South Estonia?
South Estonian. The Estonian language (eesti keel [ˈeːsti ˈkeːl] ( listen)) is the official language of Estonia, spoken natively by about 1.1 million people: 922,000 people in Estonia and 160,000 outside Estonia. It is a Southern Finnic language and is the second most spoken language among all the Finnic languages.
What is the history of Estonian literature?
Writings in Estonian became more significant in the 19th century during the Estophile Enlightenment Period (1750–1840). The birth of native Estonian literature was in 1810 to 1820 when the patriotic and philosophical poems by Kristjan Jaak Peterson were published.
What are the different varieties of South Estonian?
South Estonian consists of the Tartu, Mulgi, Võro and Seto varieties. These are sometimes considered either variants of South Estonian or separate languages altogether. Also, Seto and Võro distinguish themselves from each other less by language and more by their culture and their respective Christian confession.
What is the difference between Estonian and Finnish?
Estonian is a predominantly agglutinative language, but unlike Finnish, it has lost vowel harmony, the front vowels occurring exclusively on the first or stressed syllable, although in older texts and in South Estonian dialects the vowel harmony can still be recognized.