The language inspector is coming.

June 8, 2010

Estonia, a small former Soviet republic on the Baltic Sea, has been mounting a determined campaign to elevate the status of its native language and to marginalize Russian, the tongue of its former colonizer.

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Filed in Language ·Tags: estonia, former soviet, language policy, russian

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