Rasmus Puur, a conductor at the song festival and assistant to the artistic director, ascribes the spike in popularity to ...

Today is Native Language Day, a holiday Estonia has celebrated since 1996. The date of the holiday is the birthday of one of the country’s first Estonian-language writers, Kristian Jaak Peterson. What ...

The first academic year of the transition to Estonian-language education in schools that previously taught in Russian is drawing to a close. While initial fears may have been greater than warranted, ...

Estonia launches an identity verification feature for EEsti.ee app. Sometimes referred to as the Estonian app, it connects to ...

Uralic languages, which includes Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian, are distinctly different from Indo-European languages that ...

Under the auspices of the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Tartu, open-source language models will be trained to speak Estonian more fluently and better understand Estonian culture.

The Republic of Estonia is reforming its school system. Russian will gradually be phased out as a language of instruction by the year 2030. Soon all children will only be taught in Estonian – even ...

Estonia is a distinctly Finno-Ugric nation with a unique linguistic heritage entirely separate from Slavic languages. When educational institutions market the country’s “Russian side,” they diminish ...

The Estonian government has set up Estonian language courses for refugees from Ukraine as part of an aid program that includes housing, employment, health insurance, and the right to study.

The Estonian language uses the Latin alphabet, and is closer in structure to Finnish than it is to Russian. Starting in 2024, ...