Icelandic leid
North Germanic leid
Icelandic (íslenska) is a Germanic leid that's spak in the island kintra o Iceland. It's the offeecial leid o Iceland an is sib tae the Faroese leid. Icelandic haes juist 32 letters o the Laitin alphabet. It is the offeecial leid o Iceland. This leid is relatit tae the Faroese leid an some Norse byleids.
Icelandic | |
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íslenska | |
Pronunciation | ['i:s(t)lɛnska] |
Native tae | Iceland |
Native speakers | 330,000 (2013)[1] |
Indo-European
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Early forms | |
Latin (Icelandic alphabet) Icelandic Braille | |
Offeecial status | |
Offeecial leid in | Iceland |
Regulatit bi | Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies |
Leid codes | |
ISO 639-1 | is |
ISO 639-2 | ice (B) isl (T) |
ISO 639-3 | isl |
Glottolog | icel1247 [2] |
Linguasphere | 52-AAA-aa |
Alphabet
eeditThae letters o the Icelandic alphabet is
a á b d ð e é f g h i í j k l m n o ó p r s t u ú v x y ý þ æ ö
Wikimedia Commons haes media relatit tae Icelandic pronunciation. |
- ↑ 97% of a population of 325,000 + 15,000 native Icelandic speakers outside Iceland
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Icelandic". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.