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  1. 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] .

  2. Icelandic (Íslenska) 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. In 2013 there were approximately 15,000 native speakers of ...

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    Iceland's official written and spoken language is Icelandic, a North Germanic language descended from Old Norse. In grammar and vocabulary, it has changed less from Old Norse than the other Nordic languages; Icelandic has preserved more verb and noun inflection , and has to a considerable extent developed new vocabulary based on native roots ...

  5. Languages of Iceland; Official: Icelandic 93.2%: Immigrant: Polish 2.74% Lithuanian 0.43% English 0.32% German 0.31% Danish 0.31% Portuguese 0.28% Filipino 0.24% Thai 0.17% Latvian 0.14% Other 1.89%: Foreign: English (98%) Danish / Norwegian / Swedish French / German / Spanish: Signed: Icelandic Sign Language: Keyboard layout

  6. 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. Since it is a West Scandinavian language, it is most closely ...

  7. 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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