Please answer the following question: Information: - The Finnic (Fennic) or Baltic Finnic (Balto-Finnic, Balto-Fennic) languages are a branch of the Uralic language family spoken around the Baltic Sea by about 7 million people. - The Baltic Sea ( ; ) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, enclosed by Scandinavia, Finland, the Baltic countries, and the North European Plain. It includes the Gulf of Bothnia, the Bay of Bothnia, the Gulf of Finland, the Gulf of Riga, and the Bay of Gdask. The sea stretches from 53N to 66N latitude and from 10E to 30E longitude. A mediterranean sea of the Atlantic, with limited water exchange between the two bodies, the Baltic Sea drains through the Danish islands into the Kattegat by way of the straits of resund, the Great Belt, and the Little Belt. - South Estonian is spoken in South - Eastern Estonia , encompassing the Tartu , Mulgi , Voro and Seto varieties . There is no academic consensus on its status , as some linguists consider South Estonian a dialect of Estonian whereas other linguists consider South Estonian an independent Finnic languange . South Estonian is largely mutually intelligible with modern standard Estonian , although diachronically North and South Estonian are separate branches of the Finnic languages . Modern standard Estonian has evolved on the basis of the dialects of Northern Estonia . However , in the 17th to 19th century in Southern Estonia literature was published in a standardized form of Southern Tartu and Northern Voro . This usage was called the Tartu ( or South Estonian ) literary language . The written standard was used in the schools , churches and courts of the Voro and Tartu linguistic area but not in the Seto and Mulgi area . After Estonia gained independence in 1918 , the standardized Estonian language policies were implemented further throughout the country . The government officials during the era believed that the Estonian state needed to have one standard language for all its citizens that led to exclusion of South Estonian at schools . The ban on the instruction and speaking of South Estonian dialects in schools continued during Soviet occupation ( 1940 -- 1990 ) . After Estonia regained independence in 1991 , the Estonian government has become more supportive of the protection and development of South Estonian . A modernized literary form founded on the Voro dialect of South Estonian has been created . After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'south estonian' exhibits the relationship of 'instance of'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - bay - belt - branch - exchange - language - language family - mediterranean sea - ocean - sea
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language family