Icelandic

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Icelandic Official language of Iceland, spoken by virtually all of the island's 282,849 inhabitants. It belongs to the Germanic family of Indo-European languages. It is descended from Old Norse, which was taken to Iceland by Norwegian Vikings in the 9th and 10th centuries ad.

Icelandic

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Ice·lan·dic / īsˈlandik/ • adj. of or relating to Iceland or its language.• n. the North Germanic language of Iceland, which is very similar to Old Norse.