Icelandic is a North Germanic language spoken by around 350,000 people, nearly all of them in Iceland, where it is the official language. It descends from the Old Norse carried to the island by Viking-age settlers, and its written form has changed so little that modern Icelanders can still read the medieval sagas with some effort. The grammar keeps four cases and a complex inflection system that its Scandinavian cousins shed long ago, so Danish, Norwegian and Swedish speakers cannot simply understand it. Icelandic is written in the Latin alphabet with several additional letters, two of which survive from the same stock once used for Old English. Iceland prefers coining new words from native roots to borrowing, so even the vocabulary of computing is largely home-grown.
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