Basic Course in Estonian
Basic Course in Estonian (Uralic and Altaic) by Felix Oinas
English | July 29, 1997 | ISBN: 0700708545 | 393 Pages | DJVU | 12 MB
English | July 29, 1997 | ISBN: 0700708545 | 393 Pages | DJVU | 12 MB
This Basic Course in Estonian was prepared with support from the American Council of JLearned Societies in 1961-62, as one of the projects devised for the development of training materials for use in teaching Uralic and Altaic languages. It constitutes a considerable reworking of the Spoken Estonian, textbook written for the use of the U. S. Armed Forces some ten years earlier. The fact that this original version was prepared for the military has left its imprint on the present book. It follows, in general, the plan of textbooks prepared for the U.S. Armed Forces since 1942. Its main emphasis is on the everyday conversational language. The language used is that of educated Estonians; dialectalisms have been avoided. The spelling as well as the use of the majority of diacritical marks follows E. Muuk's Vaike oigekeelsus-sonaraamat (see the Bibliography), the official orthographic dictionary.