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2. Icelandic vocabulary - Wikipedia

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   At this time, the same language was spoken in both Iceland and Norway. [1] Vocabulary was largely Norse, and significant changes did not start to occur until the 13th and 14th centuries. [1] Around this time, Norwegian declension and inflection became considerably simplified, whereas Icelandic's did not. This difference can be seen today by ...

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 grammar - Wikipedia

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   Icelandic grammar is the set of structural rules that describe the use of the Icelandic language. Icelandic is a heavily inflected language . Icelandic nouns are assigned to one of three grammatical genders (masculine, feminine, or neuter), and are declined into four cases (nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive).

5. 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.

6. Ri-verbs - Wikipedia

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   In Icelandic grammar, the ri-verbs (Icelandic: ri-sagnir) are the four verbs in the language that have a -ri suffix in the past tense as opposed to a suffix containing a dental consonant such as /d/, /ð/, or /t/.

7. Linguistic purism in Icelandic - Wikipedia

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   The main focus of linguistic purism in Icelandic is to maintain the structure of the language (for instance as a declined language compared to some other West European Indo-European languages, such as English and French), and to develop its vocabulary, so that the language can be used to speak about any topic—no matter how technical—which ...