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To: Eric in the Ozarks; stefanbatory
Do the Estonians speak a Slavic language?

No and no. Estonians speak a Baltic language, making it most similar to Lithuanian and Latvian, which in turn, makes it somewhat similar to Sanskrit. I am not a linguist, however.

15 posted on 09/10/2007 9:53:32 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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Unless Estonian has been reclassified as a hybrid Balto-Germanic (Scandanavian)—I don’t know.


16 posted on 09/10/2007 9:59:59 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

Estonian is a Finno-Ugric language closely related to Finnish, and distantly related to Hungarian.
I’m not a linguist either but I am Estonian.


20 posted on 09/10/2007 10:13:22 AM PDT by vahet pole
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