Estonian Has Its Place in Europe
Estonian is a language related to Finnish and (distantly) to Hungarian, which is spoken by approx. one million people in the smallish Baltic state of Estonia. Up to 1991 Estonia was associated with the USSR and considering the Russian language policy, its language, just like the Latvian, would nearly be extinct. Thanks to Estonia's admission to the European Union on 1 May 2004, the status of the language has been enhanced to that of an official language of the EU.
Owing to the influence of the Teutonic Order in the Baltic countries up to the 15th century, numerous loan words were borrowed from the German. Notwithstanding, Estonian is a very strange-sounding language for most Europeans, which is ostensibly difficult to learn. In the interim, the acquisition of Estonian citizenship has been pegged to a command of the Estonian language. This makes for discontent in the Russian minority who amount to nearly 30 percent of the population.
Transline collaborates with many agencies and translators from the Baltic countries and therefore can guarantee a target-oriented and precise translation from the Estonian or into the Estonian.
