what does icelandic sound like?
Indo-European languages North Germanic languages
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 Icelandic , a North Germanic language , is the official language of Iceland ( de facto ; the laws are silent about the issue ) . Icelandic has inflectional grammar comparable to Latin , Ancient Greek , more closely to Old English and practically identical to Old Norse . 

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 Icelanders are a Germanic ethnic group and nation , native to Iceland . 

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 Written Icelandic has changed little since the 13th century . Because of this , modern readers can understand the Icelanders ' sagas . The sagas tell of events in Iceland in the 10th and early 11th centuries . They are considered to be the best @-@ known pieces of Icelandic literature . 

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 Älvdalen , Dalarna ; older female ; traditionally considered a dialect , but now often recognized as Elfdalian , a separate language 

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 Swedish is an Indo @-@ European language belonging to the North Germanic branch of the Germanic languages . In the established classification , it belongs to the East Scandinavian languages together with Danish , separating it from the West Scandinavian languages , consisting of Faroese , Icelandic and Norwegian . However , more recent analyses divide the North Germanic languages into two groups : Insular Scandinavian ( Faroese and Icelandic ) , and Continental Scandinavian ( Danish , Norwegian , and Swedish ) , based on mutual intelligibility due to heavy influence of East Scandinavian ( particularly Danish ) on Norwegian during the last millennium and divergence from both Faroese and Icelandic . 
