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- Icelandic_language abstract "Icelandic /aɪsˈlændɪk/ (About this sound íslenska ) is a North Germanic language, the language of Iceland. It is an Indo-European language belonging to the North Germanic or Nordic branch of the Germanic languages. Historically, it was the westernmost of the Indo-European languages prior to the colonisation of the Americas. Icelandic, Faroese, Norn, and Western Norwegian formerly constituted West Nordic; Danish, Eastern Norwegian and Swedish constituted East Nordic. Modern Norwegian Bokmål is influenced by both groups, leading the Nordic languages to be divided into mainland Scandinavian languages and Insular Nordic (including Icelandic).Most Western European languages have greatly reduced levels of inflection, particularly noun declension. In contrast, Icelandic retains a four-case synthetic grammar comparable to, but considerably more conservative and synthetic than, German. By virtue of its being in the Germanic family, which as a whole reduced the Indo-European case system, it is inappropriate to compare the grammar of Icelandic to that of the more conservative Baltic and Slavic languages of the Indo-European family, many of which retain six or more cases, except to note that Icelandic utilises a wide assortment of irregular declensions. Icelandic also has many instances of oblique cases without any governing word, as does Latin. For example, many of the various Latin ablatives have a corresponding Icelandic dative. The conservatism of the Icelandic language and its resultant near-isomorphism to Old Norse (which is equivalently termed Old Icelandic by linguists) means that modern Icelanders can easily read the Eddas, sagas, and other classic Old Norse literary works created in the tenth through thirteenth centuries.The vast majority of Icelandic speakers—about 320,000—live in Iceland. Over 8,000 Icelandic speakers live in Denmark, of whom approximately 3,000 are students. The language is also spoken by some 5,000 people in the US and by over 1,400 people in Canada, with the largest group living in Manitoba, notably Gimli (Gimli being an Old Norse word for 'heaven'). While 97% of the population of Iceland consider Icelandic their mother tongue, the language is in decline in some communities outside Iceland, particularly in Canada. Icelandic speakers outside Iceland represent recent emigration in almost all cases except Gimli, which was settled from the 1880s onwards.The state-funded Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies serves as a centre for preserving the medieval Icelandic manuscripts and studying the language and its literature. The Icelandic Language Council, comprising representatives of universities, the arts, journalists, teachers, and the Ministry of Culture, Science and Education, advises the authorities on language policy. Since 1995, on November 16 each year, the birthday of 19th-century poet Jónas Hallgrímsson is celebrated as Icelandic Language Day.".
- Icelandic_language iso6391Code "is".
- Icelandic_language iso6393Code "isl".
- Icelandic_language languageFamily Germanic_languages.
- Icelandic_language languageFamily North_Germanic_languages.
- Icelandic_language languageRegulator Árni_Magnússon_Institute_for_Icelandic_Studies.
- Icelandic_language spokenIn Iceland.
- Icelandic_language thumbnail Idioma_islandés.PNG?width=300.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageExternalLink Icelandic.pdf.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageExternalLink oi_cleasbyvigfusson_about.html.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageExternalLink dictlist1.php?l=Icelandic.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageExternalLink IcelOnline.IEOrd.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageExternalLink lexis.hi.is.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageExternalLink icelandic.shtml.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageExternalLink language.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageExternalLink malsten.htm.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageExternalLink 259344.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageExternalLink Icelandic-english.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageID "19999853".
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- Icelandic_language wikiPageRevisionID "702594935".
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink A.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Ablative_case.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Accusative_case.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Acute_accent.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Apical_consonant.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Arkiv_för_nordisk_filologi.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Aspirated_consonant.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Auxiliary_verb.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink B.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Back_vowel.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Basques.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Basque–Icelandic_pidgin.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Bokmål.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Calque.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Articles_including_recorded_pronunciations_(Icelandic).
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Icelandic_language.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Languages_of_Iceland.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:North_Germanic_languages.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Subject–verb–object_languages.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Verb-second_languages.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:West_Scandinavian_languages.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Christian_theology.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Christianity.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Close_vowel.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Cognate.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Consonant.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Continuant.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Coronal_consonant.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink D.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Danish_language.
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- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Declension.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Denti-alveolar_consonant.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Diacritic.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Dialect.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Diphthong.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Dutch_language.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink E.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Edda.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink English_alphabet.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink English_language.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Eth.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink European_colonization_of_the_Americas.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink F.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Family_name.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Faroese_language.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink File:Eyjafjallajökull.jpeg.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink First_Grammatical_Treatise.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Flap_consonant.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink French_language.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Front_vowel.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Fusional_language.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink G.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Gemination.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Genitive_case.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink German_language.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Germanic_languages.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Gimli,_Manitoba.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Gimlé.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Glottal_consonant.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Grammatical_case.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Grammatical_conjugation.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Grammatical_gender.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Grammatical_mood.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Grammatical_number.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Grammatical_person.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Grammatical_tense.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Guðbrandur_Vigfússon.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink H.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink History_of_Iceland.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink I.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Iceland.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Icelandic_Braille.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Icelandic_Language_Council.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Icelandic_Language_Day.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Icelandic_exonyms.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Icelandic_literature.
- Icelandic_language wikiPageWikiLink Icelandic_name.