Estonians
The Estonian are Finno-ugric people of origin, established in Estonia (to which they gave the name), where they account for 69% of the population in there 2000.
They speak the Estonian or the Võro, of the languages balto-Finnish, near to the Finnois.
The percentage of Estonians, in Estonia, dropped during second half of the 20th century (94% in 1945; 61% in 1989) because deportations of post-war periods (which also touched the Latvia and the Lithuanie; on the whole 200 .000 Baltic were off-set), of the exile of part of the population, and surge of immigrants coming from the other Republics of the Soviet Union (in particular of Russia; Bielorussia; Ukraine).
The proportion of Estonians increases because of a more important emigration of the Russian speakers (towards the Russia in particular) since independence in 1991, but their relative number continuous to drop because of a negative migratory balance, and a fertility rate lower than 2.1 children/woman.
History
The Estonians draw their name from Estes, populates described by Tacite which probably lived in Eastern Prussia speaking a Baltic language.
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