Language

Estonian is the official language, which is a Uralic language linked to Finnish. It has no relation to the Indo-European languages of neighboring Russia and Latvia. Estonian, a Finnic branch Uralic language related to Finnish, is the country's official language. It has no relation to the Indo-European languages of neighboring Russia and Latvia (more specifically East Slavic and Baltic, respectively).

Estonian is a language spoken by around 1.1 million people that is quite similar to Finnish. It is one of Europe's most unusual languages, sharing the Finno-Ugric family with Finnish and Hungarian. The majority of the words seem mesmerizingly musical, as if they were from another planet. Around 1.1 million people worldwide speak this so-called "elven" language.

With a literacy rate of 99.8%, Estonia has one of the highest literacy rates in the world, and practically everyone speaks a foreign language, the most frequent of which are English and Russian, but also Finnish, German, and Swedish. This facilitates travel throughout Estonia, though an aitäh (thank you) is always appreciated.