The Estonian language has six locative cases, descended from the locative cases of Proto-Finnic. They can be classified according to a three-way contrast of entering, residing in, and exiting a state, with two sets of cases: inner and outer. Though they are not traditionally considered as such, the essive and translative cases also can be considered locative, for a system of eight (out of fourteen) cases. The only Estonian semantic cases not included in this system are the terminative (which even might be called locative), and the pair of abessive and comitative.