Icelandic

E97877

Indo-European language North Germanic language natural language

Icelandic is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Iceland, known for its conservative grammar and vocabulary that closely preserve features of Old Norse.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Icelandic canonical	8
Icelandic language	5
Icelandic is official language of Iceland	1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Indo-European language ⓘ North Germanic language ⓘ natural language ⓘ
ancestor	Norse ⓘ surface form: Old Norse Old Icelandic ⓘ surface form: Old West Norse
basicWordOrder	SVO with V2 constraint ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo	Faroese language ⓘ surface form: Faroese Norwegian ⓘ
countryOfPrimaryUse	Iceland ⓘ
family	Germanic languages ⓘ
hasCaseSystem	nominative–accusative–dative–genitive ⓘ
hasDigitalEncoding	Unicode ⓘ
hasFeature	V2 word order in main clauses ⓘ conservative grammar ⓘ conservative vocabulary ⓘ four grammatical cases ⓘ rich inflectional morphology ⓘ strong and weak verb classes ⓘ three grammatical genders ⓘ
hasOrthographicFeature	extensive use of diacritics ⓘ use of letters ð and þ ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	contrastive vowel length ⓘ preaspiration of voiceless stops in some dialects ⓘ
hasStandardForm	Standard Icelandic ⓘ
ISO639-1Code	is ⓘ
ISO639-2Code	ice ⓘ isl ⓘ
ISO639-3Code	isl ⓘ
languageAcademyPolicy	preference for neologisms formed from native roots ⓘ
languageFamily	Indo-European language family ⓘ surface form: Indo-European
languagePolicy	emphasis on linguistic purism ⓘ
lessCloselyRelatedTo	Danish ⓘ Swedish ⓘ
officialLanguageOf	Iceland ⓘ
preservesFeaturesOf	Old Norse grammar ⓘ Old Norse vocabulary ⓘ
region	Nordic countries ⓘ
regulator	Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies ⓘ
SOVOrderPossible	yes ⓘ
spokenIn	Canada ⓘ Denmark ⓘ Iceland ⓘ Norway ⓘ Sweden ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
subfamily	North Germanic languages ⓘ
typologicalClassification	fusional language ⓘ
usedAs	language of education in Iceland ⓘ language of media in Iceland ⓘ
writingSystem	Icelandic alphabet ⓘ Latin script ⓘ