Eesti Keel

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Eesti Keel (Eng. "Estonian Language") was an Estonian linguistic journal.

founding

After the founding of the state of Estonia and the establishment of new subjects at the University of Tartu , leading Estonian linguists founded the Academic Society for Mother Tongue (Estonian Akadeemiline Emakeele Selts ) in 1920, which received valuable dialect material from the older Eesti Kirjanduse Selts (Estonian Literary Society) , founded in 1907 . Dialect research subsequently also formed the basis of the work of the society, although other topics such as language renewal in Estonia or historical linguistics also played a major role.

In 1922, the society founded a linguistic journal to improve the possibilities for publishing its research results. Previously, linguistic articles in Estonia were published in the journal Eesti Kirjandus (Estonian literature) , now six to eight issues of the only Estonian linguistic journal appear annually. The circulation was initially 1100–1500 in the 1920s and later fell to 400–450. The aim of the magazine was also to contribute to the standardization of the language, as can be seen in the foreword to the opening number: "The unity, accuracy and regularity of the language should be particularly emphasized in the magazine."

The magazine was discontinued in 1940 after the occupation of Estonia by the Soviet Union and subsequent Sovietization . The same fate met the magazine Eesti Kirjandus , after which there were briefly six issues of a magazine Eesti Keel ja Kirjandus (1941). After the Second World War and the de-Stalinization , intellectual circles in Estonia tried to revive the magazine, which only succeeded in 1958 and without the addition of "Estonian". The magazine Keel ja Kirjandus (Language and Literature) has been published since this year, and can be regarded as a successor to a limited extent.

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  1. ↑ Reet Kasik: Stahli mantlipärijad. Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus 2011, p. 120.
  2. ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt : History of Estonian Literature. From the beginning to the present. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter 2006, pp. 361–364.
  3. ↑ Eesti Entsüklopeedia 12. Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus 2003, p. 58.
  4. ↑ Eesti Keel 1/1922, p. 2.