Of course this isn’t true for every Estonian and once you get to know them they’re very open. • Estonians are patriotic due to the hardships during it’s history and their own shared love of their home country. • Historically Estonia is one of the "least religious" countries in the world in terms attitudes, though many Estonians do look for alternative beliefs. Language • The Estonian language is finno ugric, it’s closest relatives are the Finno-Ugrian languages of the Vedic and Livonian languages. • There are many dialects, the main groups can be separated into North and South Estonian dialects. • Besides the typical spoken Estonian language the second most notewordy dialect is the Võru dialect. • Estonian is one of the languages with a larger number of noun cases than typical. • According to comparative grammar studies, Estonian is one of the most sophisticated languages among the world languages.
modernist cultural life. The group called Noor-Eesti (Young Estonia), founded by young writers Gustav Suits, Friedebert Tuglas and others, called upon the Estonians to create European culture without any German and Russian mediation, and in creating culture, to move from the national to the universal. The members of this group sought direct contacts with Western Europe, with Romance, Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian cultures. Especially tight relations were established with another Fenno-Ugrian nation, the Finns, who were often taken as an example of how to organise and manage the nation's cultural life. 14 | P a g e The first decade of the century saw the emergence of professional theatres in Tallinn, Tartu and Pärnu. In 1907, the Estonian Literary Society was founded, in 1909 the Estonian National Museum. But the new Estonian elite did not brush aside the old one
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