Origins
These two groups were the first to settle in Iceland in 870 A.D.
Who are the Vikings from Norway and Celts from the British Isles?
Icelandic is known as the most conservative Scandinavian language with these three genders.
What is masculine, feminine, and neuter?
This committee creates new words in the Icelandic language.
What is the Icelandic naming committee?
Iceland celebrates this holiday on November 16.
What is Icelandic Language Day?
Icelandic is the primary language spoken by 366,000 people in this country.
These were the first two languages brought to Iceland upon settlement.
What is Old Norse and Early Danish?
Genders in Icelandic language are divided into these two paradigms.
What is strong and weak?
The Icelandic Naming Committee creates new words by combining existing words from this group.
Who are the early Viking settlers?
In Iceland, your father's first name determines this.
What is your surname?
93.2% of this group speak Icelandic as a primary language.
Who are Icelanders?
In 1066, the unified Nordic Language split into two hemispheres. This hemisphere eventually split into Norwegian and Icelandic.
What is the East?
Icelandic language consists of these two tenses.
What is simple past and simple present?
The Icelandic government has spent over $20 million on this cause.
What is growth of the Icelandic Language?
Because Icelandic has evolved so little since the classical period, many Icelanders can read these with little difficulty.
What are Old Icelandic texts?
Because of this, Icelandic was able to survive throughout Danish Rule.
What is Geographic isolation?
Icelandic remained very similar to this language until 1400.
What is Norwegian?
In Icelandic, the ending -lega is often added to create this part of speech.
What is an adverb?
The words "volva" and "tala" in Icelandic form the word "Tolva" meaning this.
The Icelandic language lacks this tense commonly found in English.
What is future tense?
Iceland has the lowest population of speakers in the Scandinavian region. This is the next closest country with roughly 4 million people speaking it's native tongue.
What is Finland?
The Icelandic language was preserved throughout Danish rule through this, and geographic isolation.
What is Icelandic Literature?
In regards to Icelandic articles, there are none of these.
What are indefinite articles?
Due to Icelandic not being catered to in technology, Iceland is on the brink of facing this.
What is digital extinction?
Iceland has the highest population percentage that use this everyday.
What is social media?
Most Icelanders reside in this geographical area.
What is the Reykjavik area?