The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Second Edition - E.M. Rickerson

The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Second Edition - E.M. Rickerson

What’s exciting about Icelandic?

The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Second Edition - E.M. Rickerson

Pardee Lowe Jr.

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Icelandic is a really interesting language, with sounds not heard in most of the major languages of the world. Today’s Icelandic isn’t much different from the language the Vikings brought to Iceland in the ninth century. The pronunciation of the language has changed through the years, but not much else has.

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Lowe Jr., Pardee. What’s exciting about Icelandic?. The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Second Edition. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 253-256 Apr 2012. ISBN 9781908049490. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=20815. Date accessed: 26 Apr 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.20815. Apr 2012

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