Estonians

Estonians are an ethnic group primarily associated with Estonia and speakers of the Finnic Estonian language.

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There are around 930,219 ethnic Estonians living in Estonia (according to the census of 2000) and up to 160,000 Estonians living outside Estonia.

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According to approximate estimates in 2000 notable diaspora is found in:

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Russia: 40,000

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United States: 25,000

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Sweden: 25,000

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Canada: 20,000

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Finland: 10,000

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Ethnic group: An ethnic group is a culture or subculture whose members are readily distinguishable by outsiders based on traits originating from a common racial, national, linguistic, or religious source. Members of an ethnic group are often presumed to be culturally or biologically similar, although this is not ...

Finnic: Finnic (Fennic, sometimes Baltic-Finnic) may refer to Finnish-similar languages spoken close to the Gulf of Finland, i.e., the Balto-Finnic subgroup of the Finno-Ugric languages or, alternatively, a larger subgroup that also includes the Sami languages....

Estonian language: The Estonian language (eesti keel) is spoken by about 1.1 million people, of which the great majority live in the Northern European country of Estonia....