The Northeastern coastal dialect is a dialect (or dialect group) of the Estonian language. The coastal dialects of the Estonian language were spoken on the coastal strip of Estonia from Tallinn to river Narva. It has very few speakers left nowadays. According to some authors, the coastal dialects form one of the three dialect groups of the Estonian language (the other two being North Estonian dialect group and the South Estonian dialect group).

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  • The Northeastern coastal dialect is a dialect (or dialect group) of the Estonian language. The coastal dialects of the Estonian language were spoken on the coastal strip of Estonia from Tallinn to river Narva. It has very few speakers left nowadays. According to some authors, the coastal dialects form one of the three dialect groups of the Estonian language (the other two being North Estonian dialect group and the South Estonian dialect group). The specific features of the dialect group are mostly common with the Northern group of the Balto-Finnic languages. According to some authors, the 'Finnish-like' features of the coastal Estonian dialects are part of ancient heritage, rather than Finnish or Ingrian influence. There are remnants of vowel harmony (räbälä, cf Standard Estonian räbala, 'rag'), there is no palatalization, short plosives are stronger than in other dialects of Estonian (mägi, cf. Finnish mäki). Similarly, more recent quantitative changes are absent (-, cf. Standard Estonian -, 'eye' - 'eyes'). Words expressing negation are finite: (en, et, ei, emma, etta, evad; cf. Standard Estonian 'ei' for all persons sg/pl), as in Finnish. In contrast to North Estonian dialects, where de plural and si preterite are usual, the coastal dialects have i plural (puhti käsiga, cf. Standard Estonian 'puhaste kätega', 'with clean hands') and i preterite. Unlike all other Estonian dialects, the coastal dialects have inflected -nud participle as in Finnish: ('juobune piaga', cf. Standard Estonian 'joobnud peaga', literally 'with drunk head', ' surne sõnumi', Standard Estonian ' surnu sõnumi' ' the dead man's message').
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  • The Northeastern coastal dialect is a dialect (or dialect group) of the Estonian language. The coastal dialects of the Estonian language were spoken on the coastal strip of Estonia from Tallinn to river Narva. It has very few speakers left nowadays. According to some authors, the coastal dialects form one of the three dialect groups of the Estonian language (the other two being North Estonian dialect group and the South Estonian dialect group).
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  • Northeastern coastal dialect (Estonia)
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