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Icelandic ( / aɪsˈlændɪk / ⓘ eyess-LAN-dik; endonym: íslenska, pronounced [ˈistlɛnska] ⓘ) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken by about 314,000 people, the vast majority of whom live in Iceland, where it is the national language. [2] .
Icelandic is the language spoken by the people of Iceland . It is a Germanic language. It comes from the Old Norse language, the language spoken by the Vikings. Because Iceland is far away from other countries, the language has not changed much.
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The Icelandic Wikipedia ( Icelandic: Wikipedia á íslensku) is the Icelandic-language edition of Wikipedia. This edition was started in December 2003. It has over 50,000 articles.
Icelandic is a Northern Germanic language spoken mainly in Iceland (Ísland), and also in Canada (Kanada) and the USA (Bandaríki Norður-Ameríku). In 2017 the population of Icelandic was 338,349 [ source ], the vast majority of whom speak Icelandic.
The history of the Icelandic language began in the 9th century when the settlement of Iceland, mostly by Norwegians, brought a dialect of Old Norse to the island. The oldest preserved texts in Icelandic were written around 1100, the oldest single text being Íslendingabók followed by Landnámabók.
Old Icelandic, usually called Old Norse, is the language in which the Edda s, sagas, and skaldic poems were written in the Middle Ages. By the time these works were written, several dialectal characteristics that differentiate Icelandic from Norwegian had emerged.
Icelandic is the language spoken by the people of Iceland.
