75% of the population is Estonian and Estonian is the first language that absolute majority of the population is able to use. read more
Distribution of the Russian language in Estonia according to data from the 2000 Estonian census. Russian is by far the most spoken minority language in the country. There are towns in Estonia with large concentrations of Russian speakers and there are towns where Estonian speakers are in the minority (especially in the northeast, e.g. Narva). read more
Finnish is understood and spoken to some extent due to (much overstated) similarity with Estonian, especially in Northern Estonia. Other languages like French, German, Swedish are much less widespread and you should not expect them to be of much use. read more
According to census figures for 2000, there are 109 languages spoken in Estonia as mother tongues, the majority language being Estonian (67.3%) followed by Russian (29.7%). The mother tongues of the remainder are the 107 others, the most numerous of those being Ukrainian, Belarussian, Finnish, Latvian and Lithuanian. read more