Estonia Languages

''Europe Estonia

The records are in Russian, German, Swedish, Latin, and Estonian. In 1989 Estonian replaced Russian as the official state language. It is not an Indo-European language. It is related to Finnish and is written in the Latin script. There are two principal dialects--northern and southern. The northern has become the standard of language and literature. Many Russian residents do not speak Estonian.

Estonia Postal History can be used to study writing.