Icelandic
E97877
Icelandic is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Iceland, known for its conservative grammar and vocabulary that closely preserve features of Old Norse.
Aliases (2)
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indo-European language
→
North Germanic language → natural language → |
| ancestor |
Old Norse
→
Old West Norse → |
| basicWordOrder |
SVO with V2 constraint
→
|
| closelyRelatedTo |
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
→
|
| 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 → |
| subfamily |
North Germanic languages
→
|
| typologicalClassification |
fusional language
→
|
| usedAs |
language of education in Iceland
→
language of media in Iceland → |
| writingSystem |
Icelandic alphabet
→
Latin script → |
Referenced by (8)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Nicholas
("Icelandic language")
→
|
hasLanguageOfUse |
|
Katarina
→
|
hasLanguageUsage |
|
North Germanic languages
→
|
includesLanguage |
|
Dag
→
|
languageOfUse |
|
Icelanders
("Icelandic is official language of Iceland")
→
|
languageStatus |
|
Icelanders
("Icelandic language")
→
|
primaryLanguage |
|
Standard Icelandic
("Icelandic language")
→
|
subclassOf |
|
Elsa
→
|
usedInLanguage |