Professional Estonian translations

We do not deal with reference, education certificates, passports, diplomas in the Estonian Our sphere expands much beyond:

technical Estonian translations:  technical translations of equipment operation manuals, autocad formatted translations of technical diagrams, etc., technical translations of reference materials to various items of equipment, translation of other types of technical documentation;

legal Estonian translations:  translations of contracts, title certificates, bank documentation, companies’ business plans, different types of agreements and arrangements, search and translation of laws of different countries for the companies extending their business over various regions, translation of court verdicts, arbitration proceedings;

literary Estonian translations: literary translation of books, articles, stories and other types of prose, literary translation of poetry, translation of advertising materials, other texts requiring an artistic and creative approach to be used and any other various matters that could be referred to the literary translations;

medical Estonian translations: translation of medical equipment operation manuals, any type of medical documentation (extracts from case histories, epicrisis, health certificates, examination results, etc.), translation of medical publications, scientific articles in various medical fields, scientific research booklets and protocols, therapeutic drug management instructions, therapeutic drug research and test results;

translations of software and website localisation proceedings from Estonian and into Estonian: translation of help-files, translation and support of multilingual websites, translation of computer games.

Services of Estonian translations in our agency are performed by certified professional translators of Estonian language.

We provide Estonian translations for both enterprises, including state organizations, and for private individuals as well.

Written Estonian translations of all types of documentation, including such areas of expertise as technical literature, translation of software and computer games.

Complete confidentiality of our customers is ensured by signing a non-disclosure agreement by every Estonian translator of our agency.

translation from Estonian into Russian or English – 0.08EUR per source word
translation from English or Russian into Estonian – 0.09EUR per source word.
the cost of translation of Estonian and other language pairs is to be negotiated with the translation bureau manager.
Itemized price list

The Russian translation services agency will quite soon recruit a native Estonian translator (or a group) to translate engineering subjects. See our order page and we will feel honor to help.

SOME FACTS ABOUT ESTONIAN

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

Estonian belongs to the Finnic branch of the Finno-Ugric languages. Estonian is not related to its southern neighbor Latvian, which is a Baltic language related to Lithuanian. Estonian is related to Finnish, spoken on the other side of the Gulf of Finland, and more distantly to Hungarian. One of the distinctive features of Estonian is that it has what is traditionally seen as three degrees of phoneme length: short, long, and "overlong", such that IPA /toto/, /to:to/ and /to::to/ are distinct, as are /toto/, /tot:o/, and /tot::o/. The distinction between long and overlong is, in practice, as much a matter of syllable stress (involving pitch) as duration. Long and overlong vowels are not distinguished in written Estonian; plosives, however, appear in writing with three "degrees": b,d,g; p,t,k and pp;tt;kk (all unvoiced plosives).

Apart from the very clear links to the Finnish language, Estonian retains many Low German loan words that can be identified in English. For example:

Estonian "nurk" (corner) & English "nook", Estonian "koer" (dog) & English "cur", Estonian "tutar" (daughter) & German "Tochter"

Often English "b" is replace with a "p" in Estonian: Estonian "poiss" English "boy", Estonian "pikk" (long) English "big", Estonian "pargipink" English "park bench",

Often an initial "s" is dropped from the Germanic origin: Estonian "tool" (chair) from English "stool", Estonian "kool" from English "school", Estonina "tukk" from German "Stuck"

ESTONIAN: a language of Estonia
SIL code: EST
ISO 639-1: et
ISO 639-2: est

Population 953,032 in Estonia out of 963,281 (93%) ethnic group (1989 census). Population total all countries 1,100,000.

Region Also spoken in Australia, Canada, Finland, Latvia, Russia (Europe), Sweden, United Kingdom, USA.
Alternate names EESTI
Dialects TALLINN (REVAL), TARTU (DORPAT), MULGI, VORU (WERRO), SETO (SETU).

Classification Uralic, Finno-Ugric, Finno-Permic, Finno-Cheremisic, Finno-Mordvinic, Finno-Lappic, Baltic-Finnic.

Comments Dialects are grouped into three: Northeastern Coastal Estonian (between Tallinn and Narva), North Estonian (island, western, central, and eastern dialects), and South Estonian (Mulgi, Tartu, Voru). Voru, Setu (a subdialect of Voru), and island are clearly distinct from standard Estonian. All the other dialects are assimilated into standard Estonian. Those over 60 and under 20 speak little Russian. It is spoken less in rural areas and in southern areas. 75% to 80% of the population in the northeast are Russian speakers. Those over 60 know some German. Most in the north speak Finnish for common topics. Estonian has remained the language of education, including universities. Some linguistic influences from Russian, German, Swedish, Latvian, Lithuanian, and Finnish. National language. Dictionary. Grammar. SVO; 14 cases: affixes indicate case of noun phrases; verb affixes mark person and number of subject and agreement (obligatory); genitives, adjectives, numberals before noun heads; question word initial; 1 prefix maximum; 5-6 suffixes maximum; word order distinguishes given and new information; active and passive voice; 4 moods in both voices: indicative, imperative, conditional, oblique; 2 infinitives for all verbs; 4 tenses in both voices and all moods: present, past, perfect, pluperfect; 3 degrees of comparison: positive, comparative, superlative; V, CV, CVC, CVCCC, CVV, CVVC, VC, VCCC, VV, VVC, CCV, CCVV, CCVC, CCVCC, CCVVCC, CCVCCC; nontonal; stress on first syllable; possible secondary stress on third syllable. Literacy rate in second language: North Estonian, central dialect. Roman script used. TV. Christian. Bible 1739-1995.

Also spoken in:
Finland Language name ESTONIAN
Population 6,000 in Finland (1993).
Dialects TALLINN (REVAL, NORTHERN ESTONIAN), TARTU (DORPAT, TATU, SOUTHERN ESTONIAN), SETU, MULY (MULGI), VYRUS (VORU).
Comments North and South Estonian may be separate languages. The traditional community was assimilated to the Swedish-speaking community. Present speakers are refugees from World War II or recent immigrants. SVO. Roman script used. Christian. Bible 1739-1995.

We offer

Professional technical Estonian translations
Professional legal Estonian translation
Professional medical Estonian translation