A Comprehensive Guide to Iceland’s Language
Icelandic is a fascinating language. It's an insular language, which has mostly stayed the same since the country's first inhabitants settled there.
It's also a conservative language, keeping many grammatical features that disappeared from continental Scandinavian languages. For instance, the computer word is tolva, a combination of tala (number) and volva (prophetess). Other examples include my band and Kaufmann.
Basics
As a language that's been around for over 1,000 years, Icelandic is one of the world's oldest and most unique. Due to its isolation from other countries, the language has maintained a high linguistic purity over the centuries. This blog post will examine this intriguing language's history and contemporary usage.
Icelandic is a North Germanic language closely re...