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Icelandic is an Indo-European language and belongs to the North Germanic group of the Germanic languages. Icelandic is further classified as a West Scandinavian language. [8] . Icelandic is derived from an earlier language Old Norse, which later became Old Icelandic and currently Modern Icelandic.
Bahasa Islandia ( íslenska) adalah bahasa yang dipertuturkan di Islandia. Bahasa ini merupakan sebuah bahasa dari rumpun bahasa Jermanik Utara yang paling arkais. Bahasa ini tidak banyak berbeda dengan bahasa Nordik Kuno. Kerabat terdekat bahasa Islandia adalah bahasa Faroe yang dituturkan orang Faroe .
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- ['istlɛnska]
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Icelandic 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. Since it is a West Scandinavian language, it is most closely related to Faroese, western Norwegian dialects, and the extinct language Norn.
Icelandic language, national language of Iceland, spoken by the entire population, some 330,000 in the early 21st century. It belongs (with Norwegian and Faroese) to the West Scandinavian group of North Germanic languages and developed from the Norse speech brought by settlers from western Norway.
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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.
- 320,000 (2011)
Icelandic at a glance. Native name: íslenska ['iːs(t)lɛnska] Language family: Indo-European, Germanic, North Germanic, West Scandinavian, Insular Scandinavian; Number of speakers: c. 350,000; Spoken in: Iceland, Denmark, USA and Canada; First written: AD 1100; Writing system: Latin script; Status: official language in Iceland
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 .
