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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 . Sistem penulisan[sunting | sunting sumber]
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Icelandic orthography uses a Latin-script alphabet. The letters Eth ( ð , capital Ð ), transliterated as d , and Thorn ( þ , capital Þ ), transliterated as th , are widely known characteristics of the Icelandic language (and are pictured here). Icelanders claim them to be "specifically" or "uniquely" Icelandic, but Eth is also used in ...
GraphemePhonetic Realization ( Ipa )Examplesbbetween ⟨m⟩ and ⟨d, t, s, g⟩ : ...kembt [cʰɛm̥t] "combed [past ...bin most cases: [p] unaspirated voiceless ...bær [paiːr̥] ⓘ "town"dbetween ⟨l⟩ or ⟨n⟩ and ⟨g, n, l, k, s⟩ : ...lands [lans] "land's [genitive]"din most cases: [t] unaspirated voiceless ...dalur [ˈtaːlʏr̥] ⓘ "valley"SHOW ALL QUESTIONS. 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 ...
Iceland ( Icelandic: Ísland, pronounced [ˈistlant] ⓘ) [d] is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe. It is linked culturally and politically with Europe and is the region's most sparsely populated country. [12] Its capital and largest city is ...
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.
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.
