Icelandic
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A language of Iceland
ISO 639-3
Autonym
Íslenska
Population
300,000 (2015 S. Ager). Total users in all countries: 313,840.
Language Status
1 (National). Statutory national language (2011, Act 61(2)).
Classification
Dialects
No appreciable dialect differences (Nida 1972). Not inherently intelligible with Faroese [fao].
Typology
SVO; prepositions; noun head final; gender (masculine/feminine/neuter); definite article suffix; case-marking (4 cases); verb affixes mark person, number; passives (active, passive, middle); comparatives; 20 consonants, 8 vowels, 5 diphthongs; non-tonal; stress on first syllable.
Language Development
Fully developed. Bible: 1584–1981.
Language Resources
Writing
Latin script [Latn].