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Icelandic is the only living language to keep the letter thorn. In Icelandic, þ is pronounced þoddn , [θ̠ɔtn̥] or þorn [θ̠ɔrn̥] . The letter is the 30th in the Icelandic alphabet , modelled after Old Norse alphabet in the 19th century; it is transliterated to th when it cannot be reproduced [ 8 ] and never appears at the end of a word.
Icelandic keyboard layout. The Icelandic keyboard layout is a national functional keyboard layout described in ÍST 125, [1] used to write the Icelandic language on computers and typewriters. It is QWERTY-based and features some influences from the continental Nordic layouts. It supports the language's many special letters, some of which it ...
Icelandic orthography uses a Latin-script alphabet which has 32 letters. Compared with the 26 letters of English, the Icelandic alphabet lacks C, Q, W and Z, but additionally has Ð, Þ, Æ and Ö. Six letters have forms with acute accents to produce Á, É, Í, Ó, Ú and Ý.
A sample of Icelandic handwriting with some instances of lowercase ð clearly visible: in the words Borðum, við and niður. Also visible is a thorn in the word því . In Icelandic, ð , called "eð", represents an alveolar non-sibilant fricative, voiced [ ð̠ ] intervocalically and word-finally, and voiceless [ θ̠ ] otherwise, which form ...
The Icelandic keyboard layout is different from the standard QWERTY keyboard because the Icelandic alphabet has some special letters, most of which it shares with the other Nordic countries: Þ/þ, Ð/ð, Æ/æ, and Ö/ö. (Æ/æ also occurs in Norwegian, Danish and Faroese, Ð/ð in Faroese, and Ö/ö in Swedish, Finnish and Estonian.
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The name of 𐌸, the Gothic letter corresponding to Þ is an exception; it is recorded as þiuþ "(the) good" in the Codex Vindobonensis 795, and as such unrelated to either þurs or þorn. The lack of agreement between the various glyphs and their names in Gothic, Anglo-Saxon, and Old Norse makes it difficult to reconstruct the Elder Futhark ...