Estonians or Estonian people (Estonian: eestlased) are a Finnic ethnic group native to Estonia who speak the Estonian language.. The Estonian language is spoken as the first language by the vast majority of Estonians; it is closely related to other Finnic languages, e.g. Finnish, Karelian and Livonian.The Finnic languages are a subgroup of the larger Uralic family of languages, which …

Oeselians (Latin: Oesel, Osilia, Swedish: Ösel, Danish: Øsel, Finnish: Saarenmaa) is a term historically applied before the Northern Crusades up to the 13th century to people who were living on the island of Saaremaa or Oesel as it was known back then, an island in Estonia in the Baltic Sea.In modern times they are sometimes also referred to as piratical Saarlased (Estonian …