Language/Icelandic
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Facts about Icelandic[edit | edit source]
- Language code (ISO 639-3):
isl
- Autonyms (how to write "Icelandic" in Icelandic):
Ăslenska
- Other names for "Icelandic":
Ăslenska
- The Icelandic language is spoken in:
Iceland
Icelandic is a North Germanic language spoken by about 314,000 people, the vast majority of whom live in Iceland where it is the national language.As a West Scandinavian language, it is most closely related to Faroese, extinct Norn, and western Norwegian dialects.
The language is more conservative than most other Germanic languages. While most of them have greatly reduced levels of inflection (particularly noun declension), Icelandic retains a four-case synthetic grammar (comparable to German, though considerably more conservative and synthetic) and is distinguished by a wide assortment of irregular declensions. Since the written language has not changed much, Icelanders can read classic Old Norse literature created in the 10th through 13th centuries (such as the Eddas and sagas) with relative ease.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_language
Icelandic Dictionaries[edit | edit source]
⢠Concise Icelandic-English dictionary by Sverrir Hólmarsson, Christopher Sanders, John Tucker (1989) (University of Wisconsin)
⢠Snara: English-Icelandic dictionary & other languages
⢠Ăslensk-katalĂłnsk orĂ°abĂłk: Icelandic-Catalan dictionary, by MaciĂ Riutort
⢠Ăslenzk-Ensk orĂ°abĂłk: Icelandic-English dictionary by Geir ZoĂŤga (1922)
⢠Islandsk-dansk ordbog: Icelandic-Danish dictionary by Sigfús BlÜndal (1920) I - II (from leggja)
⢠50 easy proverbs for Icelandic learners selected from Ăslenskir mĂĄlshĂŚttir meĂ° skĂ˝ringum og dĂŚmum, by SĂślvi Sveinsson (1995)
⢠Concise dictionary of Old Icelandic by Geir ZoÍga (1910) (or scanned book)
⢠Icelandic-English dictionary by Richard Cleasby & Gudbrand Vigfusson (1874) (or scanned book)
⢠Ărni MagnĂşsson Institute: Icelandic-Basque glossaries, manuscripts (17th)
⢠Icelandic first names: origin & meaning
⢠Icelandic-English glossary of selected geoscience terms
⢠On loanwords of Latin origin in contemporary Icelandic by Matteo Tarsi, in Nordicum-Mediterraneum (2014)
⢠On the origin of the oldest borrowed Christian terminology in Icelandic (10th-12th centuries), in Orð og tunga (2016)
⢠The vocabulary of insular Scandinavian: lexical purism, neologisms and language contact in Icelandic and Faroese, by Edward Smith (2014)
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