Is the Estonian language endangered?


southern estonia folk costumesEstonia's population continues to shrink. When I first moved to Estonia in 1992, its population stood at an estimated 1.59 million. It has dwindled ever since, dropping first below 1.5 million, then below 1.4 million. It has now officially fallen below the 1.3 million threshold: the country's estimated population as of July 2009 is 1,299,371. And startlingly, as of 2009, Estonia's population growth rate of -0.63% places it 230th out of 234 countries in the world. Only Ukraine, Bulgaria...

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Published on October 03, 2009 13:02
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