Estonian Legal Translation Service

Our specialist Estonian legal translators work for a wide range of legal and associated professions. Solicitors, courts, police stations, prisons, accountants, public sector organisations, EU organisations, businesses and individuals have all used our services.

Our Estonian legal translators translate letters, certificates, statements, audits, contracts, patents, summons, and other legal papers.

Our vetted translators specialise in different areas of law or types of legal documentation, so you can be sure that the right specialist will be assigned to the work.

Many Estonian translations of documents and certificates need to be notarised or certified before they will be accepted as “true” translations. To find out more, visit our Certified, Notarised , FCO Legalisation pages.

As well as offering a professional and confidential Estonian legal translation service, Knockhundred also has available a team of Estonian legal transcribers in a wide range of languages. To find out more, visit our Estonian transcription service page.

Confidentiality during the translation process

As part of our contract with you, we and our Estonian linguists are required to keep all material confidential that is not in the public domain. We are also happy to sign more specific confidentiality agreements if required.

Please refer to our client feedback page to learn more about the unbeatable Estonian language service we offer.

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WHILE YOU’RE HERE... SOME QUITE INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE Estonian LANGUAGE

Estonian is a Finnic language closely related to Finnish, and spoken by about 1.1 million people in Estonia. The main difference between these two languages is that Finnish has many loanwords from Swedish, while Estonian contains many words of German origin, plus some from Russian, Latin, Greek and English. There is considerable mutual intelligibility between Estonian and Finnish.

Estonian has two groups of dialects: northern and southern. The northern dialects are associated with the city of Tallinn, and the southern ones with Tartu. Standard Estonian is based on the northern dialects. The southern dialects are sometimes considered separate languages.

Estonian was the state language of Estonia from 1919 to 1945. During the Soviet period Estonian was one of the the official languages, along with Russian, and most Estonians became bilingual in Estonian and Russian. Non-Estonians had to learn Estonian in school, however many considered learning the language unnecessary. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 Estonian became the state language once more, and Russian was discouraged.

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Estonian SAMPLE TEXT

Kõik inimesed sünnivad vabadena ja võrdsetena oma väärikuselt ja õigustelt. Neile on antud mõistus ja südametunnistus ja nende suhtumist üksteisesse peab kandma vendluse vaim.

Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Estonian example video

AND LASTLY, AN Estonian tongue twister

Habemeajaja ja jaamaülem jalutasid honorari järele.