What is Icelandic?

This language is the official language of Iceland.

Icelandic belongs to the northern branch of Germanic family of Indo-European family, that is, a language of Scandinavian branch. Icelandic originated from Old Scandinavian (Old Scandinavian), especially the language brought by Icelandic settlers in the Viking period.

Icelandic is relatively conservative in historical evolution, retaining many features of ancient Germanic language, especially in vocabulary and grammar.

Icelandic is considered as the modern language closest to Old Scandinavian, and Icelanders can easily read and understand medieval literary works, such as Eda and Sakya in Iceland. Icelandic is mainly spoken in Iceland, but it is also spoken by a few people all over the world, especially in parts of Canada and Norway.