Abstract
Abstract Estonian has in the course of historical changes become more distant from the other Finnic languages and has acquired some features of Indo-European and/or Standard Average European. The article compares some structural features between Estonian, Finnish, Standard Average European, and German and Russian. Estonian and Finnish have grown apart typologically while retaining their main structure and are to the same extent peripheral with regard to SAE. At the same time there are some morpho-syntacic features where Estonian has become more distant from Finnish not in the direction of SAE but in the direction of German or Russian. In both languages the central SAE features are represented on a more moderate scale than the secondary features. Both languages, especially Estonian, reveal some tendencies towards SAE features.
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