Question: What language group is Estonian not a part of?
Answer: Indo-European languages

Question: What languages are related to Estonian but not closely?
Answer: Hungarian and to the Sami languages

Question: Who spoke German in what came to be known as Estonia?
Answer: Baltic Germans

Question: Aside from standard German what German language influenced Estonian?
Answer: Middle Low German

Question: What kind of harmony has Estonian lost?
Answer: vowel

Question: What language feature does Estonian, Finish and Hungarian share? 
Answer: agglutinative

Question: In what order are words put in sentences in the Estonian language?
Answer: subject–verb–object

Question: What was the minimum number of waves through which modern Estonians migrated into Estonia?
Answer: two

Question: What are the names of the two separate Estonian languages?
Answer: North and South Estonian languages

Question: When did the Northern Crusades happen?
Answer: 13th century to 1918

Question: Which countries took part in the Northern Crusades?
Answer: Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and Russia

Question: Following the crusades which country was dominated?
Answer: Estonia

Question: What did the aftermath of the crusades end up delaying in Estonia?
Answer: indigenous literacy

Question: How far back do the first written records of Estonia's Finnic languages go?
Answer: 13th century

Question: Where can records of Estonian place names be found?
Answer: Originates Livoniae

Question: Which Chronicle contains the Originates Livoniae?
Answer: Chronicle of Henry of Livonia

Question: Aside from place names what else from the Estonian language can be found in the Originates Livoniae in Chronicle of Henry of Livonia?
Answer: words and fragments of sentences.

Question: What was the first Estonian language book to be published?
Answer: a Lutheran manuscript

Question: When were the Kallamaa prayers written?
Answer: 1524 and 1528

Question: What was the fate of the Lutheran manuscript printed in 1525?
Answer: destroyed

Question: At what point in its existence was the Lutheran manuscript destroyed?
Answer: immediately after publication

Question: What two people are responsible for the first still in existence book in the Estonian Language?
Answer: S. Wanradt and J. Koell

Question: In what year was S. Wanradt and J. Koell's book written?
Answer: 1535

Question: What type of book was it?
Answer: bilingual German-Estonian translation of the Lutheran catechism

Question: What book specifically for the use of priests was printed in Estonian?
Answer: An Estonian grammar book

Question: What year was the priests' grammar book put into print?
Answer: 1637

Question: Which Estonian poet's works were printed from 1810 to 1820?
Answer: Kristjan Jaak Peterson

Question: What subjects were Kristjan Jaak Peterson poems on?
Answer: patriotic and philosophical

Question: When was Peterson born?
Answer: March 14

Question: What is another name given for Peterson's birthday?
Answer: Mother Tongue Day

Question: What university did Peterson attend?
Answer: German-language University of Dorpat

Question: In the years between 1918 and 1940 how many Estonian language books were printed?
Answer: 23,868

Question: In the roughly four centuries previous to 1918 how many Estonian language books were printed?
Answer: 14,503

Question: In what language were 14,503 books published prior to 1918?
Answer: Estonian

Question: What Age's ideas allowed Estonian writings to gain significance?
Answer: Age of Enlightenment

Question: Who thought their future would be fused with Estonians?
Answer: Baltic Germans

Question: Who had admiration for the ancient Estonian culture?
Answer: Estophile educated class

Question: Who conquered the ancient Estonians?
Answer: Danes and Germans

Question: When did the ancient Estonian era of freedom come to an end?
Answer: 13th century

Question: What year did Estonia's War of Independence take place?
Answer: 1919

Question: After Estonia achieved independence what was made their state language?
Answer: Estonian

Question: What percentage of Estonians thought of themselves as ethnic Estonian's in 1945?
Answer: 97.3%

Question: What language was spoken by ethnic Estonians?
Answer: Estonian

Question: What happened to Estonia during WWII?
Answer: invaded and occupied

Question: Who invaded Estonia?
Answer: Soviet Union

Question: After the Soviet invasion what other language became the second official Estonian language?
Answer: Russian

Question: What was another country with similar immigration patterns to post Soviet Estonia?
Answer: Latvia

Question: What became more intense in the 1970's in Estonia?
Answer: pressure of bilingualism

Question: What historical event once again freed Estonia?
Answer: collapse of the Soviet Union

Question: Following the Soviet collapse what became the only official Estonian Language?
Answer: Estonian

Question: What language was no longer promoted as one of Estonia's main languages?
Answer: Russian

Question: What came into being in January 1989?
Answer: The Law on the Status of the Estonian Language

Question: Following the departure of the Soviet immigrants what was the percentage of Estonians in Estonia?
Answer: above 70%

Question: How many groups of Estonian dialects are there?
Answer: two

Question: What are the names of the Estonian dialect groups?
Answer: the northern and southern dialects

Question: What is the northern city to which the northern dialect is associated?
Answer: Tallinn

Question: Where is the kirderanniku dialect spoken?
Answer: the northeastern coast of Estonia

Question: What is the city where the southern dialect was historically spoken?
Answer: Tartu

Question: What dialect is also known as the central dialect?
Answer: the keskmurre

Question: What is the dialect from Lake Peipsi?
Answer: the idamurre or eastern dialect

Question: What dialects of the northern group are spoken on the saarte murre?
Answer: Saaremaa and Hiiumaa

Question: What is another name for Estonian's northern group's western dialect?
Answer: the läänemurre

Question: What dialects comprise the southern group?
Answer: the Tartu, Mulgi, Võru (Võro) and Setu (Seto) dialects

Question: More importantly than their language aspect how do the Seto and Võro dialects set themselves apart from each other?
Answer: their culture

Question: Aside from being thought of as variants of Estonian's southern group what else are the Tartu, Mulgi, Võru (Võro) and Setu (Seto) dialects sometimes considered?
Answer: separate languages altogether

Question: What religion is associated with Seto and Võro?
Answer: Christian

Question: From what script does the Estonian language get its alphabet?
Answer: Latin

Question: What is another language that uses Latin for its alphabet?
Answer: Finnish

Question: In the Estonian language how is the letter A pronounced?
Answer: [æ], as in English mat

Question: What principles usually govern the Estonian orthography?
Answer: phonemic principles

Question: To how many phoneme's does each grapheme correspond?
Answer: one

Question: What type of deviations are there from the single phoneme to each grapheme general principle?
Answer: some historical and morphological deviations

Question: On what occasions are š and ž replaced with sh and zh?
Answer: Where it is very impractical or impossible to type š and ž

Question: What is an example of a word containing a voiceless glottal fricative?
Answer: Pasha (pas-ha)

Question:  In what Orthagraphy does Modern Estonian orthography have its basis?
Answer: Newer Orthography

Question: Who is responsible for the creation of the Newer Orthography?
Answer: Eduard Ahrens

Question: In what century was the Newer Orthography created?
Answer: 19th century

Question: Previous to the Newer Orthography what orthography was in place?
Answer: Older Orthography

Question: From what other country's orthography did the Older Orthography get its basis?
Answer: standard German orthography