Because Finns and Estonians have a shared ancient history. Estonians are descendants of finnic tribes. Their language is very similar to Finnish.
Finns are descendants of North-Eastern Estonians, who migrated to North and North-West over the sea. North-Eastern "Coastal" Estonian is one of the three sub-languages besides official written (Northern) Estonian and Southern-Estonian and is a root of today's Finnish language.
Finnish is tend to sound like Estonian some 600 - 800 years ago.
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Because Finns and Estonians have a shared ancient history. Estonians are descendants of finnic tribes. Their language is very similar to Finnish.
Finns are descendants of North-Eastern Estonians, who migrated to North and North-West over the sea. North-Eastern "Coastal" Estonian is one of the three sub-languages besides official written (Northern) Estonian and Southern-Estonian and is a root of today's Finnish language. Finnish is tend to sound like Estonian some 600 - 800 years ago.