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  2. Languages of Iceland - Wikipedia

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    Icelandic is not only the national language, but is now “the official language in Iceland” by virtue of Act No 61/2011, adopted by parliament in 2011. [1] Icelandic Sign Language was also officially recognised by law in 2011 as a minority language with constitutional rights and the first language of the Icelandic deaf community.

  3. Icelandic language - Wikipedia

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    Icelandic is an Indo-European language and belongs to the North Germanic group of the Germanic languages. Icelandic is further classified as a West Scandinavian language. [8] Icelandic is derived from an earlier language Old Norse, which later became Old Icelandic and currently Modern Icelandic. The division between old and modern Icelandic is ...

  4. Icelandic Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    Icelandic Sign Language (Icelandic: Íslenskt táknmál) is the sign language of the deaf community in Iceland. It is based on Danish Sign Language; until 1910, deaf Icelandic people were sent to school in Denmark, but the languages have diverged since then. It is officially recognized by the state and regulated by a national committee.

  5. Deafness in Iceland - Wikipedia

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    Páll died in 1890, but his teachings remained relatively the same. In 1944, Deaf education changed completely in the deaf school. Under the new principal, Brandur Jónsson, oralism became the method of learning in the classrooms and all signing was banned. The renewed educational goal was to teach children to speak and understand spoken Icelandic.

  6. Icelandic phonology - Wikipedia

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    Vowels of Icelandic, from Volhardt (2011:7) There is less disagreement over the vowel phonemes in Icelandic than the consonant phonemes. The Old Icelandic vowel system involving phonemic length was transformed to the modern system where phonetic length is automatically determined by the syllable structure. In the process of eliminating vowel ...

  7. Comparison of Danish, Norwegian and Swedish - Wikipedia

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    The 12th-century Icelandic Gray Goose Laws state that Swedes, Norwegians, Icelanders, and Danes spoke the same language, dǫnsk tunga ("Danish tongue"; speakers of Old East Norse would have said dansk tunga). Another term was norrœnt mál ("northern speech").

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