Tallinn, Estonian Academy Publishers, 2003. — 413 p. — ISBN: 9985-50-359-7
There are very few general surveys of the Estonian language for the international reader, and the existing ones were published a long time ago. The most recent and the best one is Introduction to Estonian Linguistics by Alo Raun and Andrus Saareste (Ural-Altaische Bibliothek XII. Wiesbaden, 1965). The present volume attempts to fill this gap and to provide a comprehensive account of the Estonian language to the international reader - its structure, origin and development, standard language, dialects, spoken language, and the study of Estonian.