Estonian

Estonian
Language code (ISO 639-1)	et
Language code (ISO 639-2) 3-char	est
Native speakers (L1)	1200000
2nd language speakers (L2)
Wikipedia page to check	wikipedia:Estonian language

Estonian (eesti keel [ˈeːsʲti ˈkeːl]) 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.

According to linguistic typology, the Estonian language is considered a part of the Finnic branch of the Uralic language family. Other Finnic languages include Finnish and a few minority languages spoken around the Baltic Sea and in northwestern Russia.

Estonian is typically subclassified as a Southern Finnic language, and it is the second-most-spoken language among all the Finnic languages.

Alongside Finnish, Hungarian, and Maltese, Estonian is one of the four official languages of the European Union that are not typologically considered Indo-European languages.