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Icelandic language
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Icelandic language
Icelandic
is a
North Germanic language
, the language of
Iceland
. It is an
Indo-European language
belonging to the North Germanic or
Nordic
branch of the
Germanic languages
. Historically, it was the westernmost of the
Indo-European languages
prior to the
colonisation of the Americas
. Icelandic,
Faroese
,
Norn
, and Western
Norwegian
formerly constituted
West Nordic
;
Danish
, Eastern Norwegian and
Swedish
constituted
East Nordic
. Modern Norwegian
Bokmål
is influenced by both groups, leading the Nordic languages to be divided into mainland Scandinavian languages and
Insular Nordic
(including Icelandic).
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