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Icelandic language

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Icelandic language member of the North Germanic, or Scandinavian, group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. Spoken chiefly in Iceland, where it is the official language, it stems from Old Norse, the language of the Vikings who settled the island in the 9th cent. (see Germanic languages ; Norse ). The beginning of the modern period of the Icelandic language may be said to date from the translation of the New Testament in 1540 by Oddur Gottskálksson. Before that date the language is considered Old Icelandic, which is classified as belonging to the western... Read more
Icelandic language
...and the Celtic and Romance languages, but a purist movement that began in the early 19th century has replaced most of these loanwords with words formed only from Icelandic elements. Icelandic language Icelandic language Icelandic language Read more
Icelandic
Icelandic Official language of Iceland, spoken by virtually all of the island's 282,849 inhabitants. It belongs to the Germanic family of Indo-European languages . It is descended from Old Norse, which was taken to Iceland by Norwegian Vikings in the 9th and 10th centuries ad . Read more

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