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Estonian orthography is the system used for writing the Estonian language and is based on the Latin alphabet. The Estonian orthography is generally guided by phonemic principles, with each grapheme corresponding to one phoneme .
Estonian National Defence College (KVÜÕA Kõrgem Sõjakool), Tartu; Estonian Public Service Academy, Tallinn; Estonian University of Life Sciences (Eesti Maaülikool), Tartu; Tallinn University of Applied Sciences (Tallinna Tehnikakõrgkool), Tallinn; Pallas University of Applied Sciences (Kõrgem Kunstikool Pallas), Tartu
Tiiu Erelt (until 1962 Tiiu Kask; born 20 April 1942 in Tallinn) is an Estonian linguist. [1] In 1965 she graduated from Tartu State University with a degree in Finno-Ugric languages. Her main fields of research have been Estonian terminology, dictionaries, lexicology, language planning, and the development of jargon in many disciplines. [1]
Estonian University of Life Sciences (2 C, 1 P) T. Tallinn University (2 C, 1 P) University of Tartu (2 C, 34 P) U. Universities and colleges formed by merger in ...
Estonian vowel chart, from Asu & Teras (2009:368). For some speakers, /ɤ/ can be more back (closer to /o/), or more back and higher (closer to /u/). There are 9 vowels and 36 diphthongs, 28 of which are native to Estonian. [1] All nine vowels can appear as the first component of a diphthong, but only /ɑ, e, i, o, u/ occur as the second component.
The head of the College is a director, who is appointed by the Council of the University of Tartu.The College comprises five divisions: Division of Civic Studies, Division of Psychology and Pedagogy, Division of Estonian Language and Literature, Division of Russian Language and Literature, and Division of Foreign Languages.
The "Older orthography" it replaced was created in the 17th century by Bengt Gottfried Forselius and Johann Hornung based on standard German orthography. Earlier writing in Estonian had, by and large, used an ad hoc orthography based on Latin and Middle Low German orthography. Some influences of the standard German orthography – for example ...
The history of formal education in Estonia dates back to the 13–14th centuries when the first monastic and cathedral schools were founded. The first primer in the Estonian language was published in 1575. The oldest university is the University of Tartu which was established during the reign of King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden in 1632.