Seto School Opened in Tallinn
A group of young mothers in Tallinn founded a school to teach their children the singing and dancing traditions of the Seto culture as well as how to read the Seto language.
In the beginning the school will meet just once a week, organizers told ETV. Children will learn to play Seto games and about important dates on the cultural calendar.
There are only about 5,000 speakers of Seto, a language in southeastern Estonia that is linguistically related to Estonian, and has until recently been considered a dialect.
Though books and periodicals in Seto have been introduced in recent years, the language is seen to be in danger because so few children learn it.
Ott Tammik