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23 hours ago · Municipalities with a Swedish majority, mainly found along the coast, used Swedish as the administrative language and Swedish-Estonian culture saw an upswing. However, most Swedish-speaking people fled to Sweden before the end of World War II, before the invasion of Estonia by the Soviet army in 1944. Only a handful of older speakers remain.
- Economy of Estonia
The economy of Estonia is rated advanced by the World Bank,...
- Irreligion in Estonia
Irreligion in Estonia pertains to atheism, agnosticism, and...
- Geography of Estonia
Between 57.3 and 59.5 latitude and 21.5 and 28.1 longitude,...
- Estonian Declaration of Independence
The tricolour flags of Estonia were displayed during the...
- Estonia (Disambiguation)
Estonia is a country in Northern Europe.. The same country,...
- Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic
The Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic (Estonian SSR),...
- Economy of Estonia
23 hours ago · Greek (Modern Greek: Ελληνικά, romanized: Elliniká, pronounced; Ancient Greek: Ἑλληνική, romanized: Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
- 13.5 million (2012)
23 hours ago · The official formal language used by governmental institutions, print, news, schools and universities, courts, theatres and in any kind of written form is the Swiss variety of Standard German, while the spoken language is Zürich German (Züritüütsch), one of the several more or less distinguishable, but mutually intelligible Swiss German ...
23 hours ago · Most of the 25-30 million followers of Sikhism, the world's fifth-largest religion [disputed – discuss], live in the northern Indian state of Punjab, the only Sikh-majority administrative division on Earth, but Sikh communities exist on every inhabited continent.
23 hours ago · Gemination of a consonant (doubling the letter) is indicated with adhak in Gurmukhi and tashdīd in Shahmukhi. Its inscription with a unique diacritic is a distinct feature of Gurmukhi compared to Brahmic scripts. All consonants except six (ṇ, ṛ, h, r, v, y) are regularly geminated.
- 113 million (2011–2017)
23 hours ago · One of the earliest influences on the New Age was the Swedish 18th-century Christian mystic Emanuel Swedenborg, who professed the ability to communicate with angels, demons, and spirits. Swedenborg's attempt to unite science and religion and his prediction of a coming era in particular have been cited as ways that he prefigured the New Age.
23 hours ago · The Konkani language has 16 basic vowels (excluding an equal number of long vowels), 36 consonants, 5 semi-vowels, 3 sibilants, 1 aspirate, and many diphthongs. Like the other Indo-Aryan languages, it has both long and short vowels and syllables with long vowels may appear to be stressed. Different types of nasal vowels are a special feature of ...