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Book: The Five-Minute Linguist

Chapter: What’s exciting about Icelandic?

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.20815

Blurb:

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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