Icelandic is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family, spoken by about 390,000 people, the vast majority of whom live in Iceland, where it is the national language.
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ISO 639-3 Code Speaker CountNative speakers, undated figure in the infobox. StatusWikipedia article on Icelandic: a currently spoken living language with an active native-speaker population; checked 2026-09-27. Attested From (Year) Classification
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Source Wikipedia: Rasmus Rask
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Source Wikipedia: Icelandic Language
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Icelandic ( ice-LAN-dick; endonym: íslenska, pronounced [ˈi(ː)stlɛnska] , íslensk tunga [ˈi(ː)stlɛnsk ˈtʰuŋka]) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken by about 390,000 people, the vast majority of whom live in Iceland, where it is the national language.
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1. Glottolog: Icelandic (Glottolog languoid icel1247)
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AES status: not endangered
2. Wikipedia: Icelandic Language
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Icelandic ( eyess-LAN-dik; endonym: íslenska, pronounced [ˈi(ː)stlɛnska] , íslensk tunga [ˈi(ː)stlɛnsk ˈtʰuŋka]) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken by about 390,000 people, the vast majority of whom live in Iceland, where it is the national language.
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Iceland
In Family: Germanic, Infobox, Language family
Top family: Indo-European languages; immediate branch: North Germanic languages.
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First written : AD 1100
Wikipedia: Rasmus Rask
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first grammar of Icelandic
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