Icelandic leid
Appearance
| Icelandic | |
|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 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 |
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.
Alphabet
[eedit | eedit soorce]Thae 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.