Estonian (;
IPA: ) is the official language of
Estonia, spoken by about 1.1 million people in Estonia and by some ten thousand in various
émigré communities. It is a
Finno-Ugric language and is closely related to
Finnish.One distinctive feature that has caused a great amount of interest in
linguists is that Estonian has what is traditionally seen as three degrees of
phoneme length: short, long, and "overlong", such that
IPA , and are distinct, as are , , and . In actuality, the distinction isn't purely in the phoneme length, and the underlying phonological mechanism is still disputed.
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