Hey Paul, possibly a new video topic to do would be to see if their is any influences on Icelandic from Irish, I know many Irish women were taken by vikings to Iceland originally, is there influence?

Long time to wait your nice videos thank you 👍🏻

You also spelled ‚blessuð‘ as ‚blessöð‘ (which is not a word in Icelandic).

Great video, thanks Paul! One other small typo: at 7:42 the feminine form of goodbye is vertu sæl og blessuð (instead of blessöð). Though A often shifts to Ö in the feminine singular, it shifts to U in unstressed syllables. Thus glaður (happy) becomes glöð in feminine. But blessaður becomes blessuð. Again, thank you for your great content!

@@icelandicforforeigners Ég var rétt í þessu að benda á þetta annarstaðar. Gott að vita að málið sé leiðrétt svona fljótlega eftir "sjósetningu" myndbandsins 😆

just like Shakespeare, that's interesting

Seconded, this has also been my experience, more or less.

I want to add that most school children are not told that what they are reading has been modernized. Like ǫ changed to ö, -r changed to -ur, any systematic shortenings have been spelled out, and some more changes. You would not be able to hand original, but digitized, texts to school children and expect them to be able to read it.

@@pentelegomenon1175 yeah Shakespeare makes some sense and then you’re like wtf lol

​@@pentelegomenon1175 The comment you replied to didn't mention Shakespeare, but the video did. In my experience as someone who's fluent in both Icelandic and English, yes that's exactly what the old sagas feel like to me. Shakespeare. I can understand the gist of it, but my comprehension is liimited because I only know the modern versions of the languages.

I’m learning Icelandic & Norse, and I am obsessed with all the pretty words - by the way, it’s not true that Old Norse & Old Icelandic are the same language, it’s just a misconception most have, because they are very closely related, but, the dude that created Old Icelandic by modifying Old Norse changed lots of the words’ spelling, and replaced the special Norse letter ǫ with the letter ö and some of the other special Norse vowels as well, so its aspect is slightly different, so it isn’t the same language, so yea, West Norse is only one language, and ppl should start learning it and speaking it as a main language anew, it’s one of those languages that shouldn’t have been sent into a ‘dormant state’ for centuries, and I am learning them all, actually, so I am learning West Norse + Icelandic 2gether with Greenlandic Norse and Faroese and East Norse, and I’m also trying to learn Old Icelandic + Middle Icelandic and Old Faroese + Middle Faroese, and all other Nordic / Germanic languages, and also the 6 modern Celtic languages etc, but it’s not easy to find resources and yt videos teaching most of the ancient ones and even Faroese and the modern Celtic languages which are a modern language, which makes it harder for the learner, but, I know that they did that with the Celtic language called Manx, so they should do the same for all these ancient Germanic languages, and, they should also provide a complete set of proper yt vocab videos and videos on grammar etc that cover all words in all those languages and all details about their grammar, so that they can be learnt to fluency by many, and they should also add them all to Google translate, and also, to all those language apps like Duolingo etc!

I highly recommend learning Icelandic + Norse and Dutch and Norwegian etc, as they are the prettiest languages ever, as pretty and refined and poetic as English, so they are too pretty not to know and a true work of art - Icelandic has lots of interesting words that are quite unique, and the word for computer (which is tölva, as far as I remember, tho I have only seen it once or twice, so the spelling might be a bit different) is one of them, and it also has lots of interesting compound words, and all other Germanic languages are also awesome, so any of them are a great option, honestly!

I noticed that almost every Icelandic word is super gorgeous, except for a few words such as ka x 2 (for obvious reasons 😂 because ka x 2 reminds of a word that isn’t good and that is the exact opposite of food, but, I just fixed its spelling, so, it should just be spellt kæjkí instead, like, kæjkí / kæjk / kæjku / kæjks /// kæjkínn / kæjkinn / kæjkinum / kæjksins) and probably a few others, but yea, I don’t remember to have seen more than 2 or 3 non-pretty words in Icelandic and Norse / Faroese / Norwegian / Danish / Gothic etc, and I haven’t seen more than 10 non-pretty words in Dutch, as Germanic languages just don’t have many non-pretty words, so it’s not easy to find a non-pretty word in a Germanic language, as almost every Germanic word is just so pretty and well-constructed, with great letter combinations and gorgeous word endings and diphthongs etc!

​@@FrozenMermaid666well said!!!

Congratulations!!

@@HeyKevinYT Thanks!

As a fellow ling major, congratulations!! What topics did you specialize in?

@@aaronmarks9366 Computational linguistics, but mainly I did a little bit of everything

Verði þér að góðu ;)

As a Swede I second your assessment :)

There's a reason everyone in Iceland, Norway and Sweden calls Danish "Norwegian with a potato in your throat"

'A æ u å ø i æ å' is Danish dialekt and can be understood to mean: I am out on the island in the river, so I guess you've got a point there. Many years ago on a business trip to Belgium we met a factory manager whose hobby was studying Danish in order to be able to read the Danish translation of the Icelandic sagas, why he didn't study Icelandic, I don't know but I guess the Danish version was more accessible while maintaining the 'tone'.

@@hassegreiner9675 this is indeed a great example :) But even when consonants are written, I always had the impression many of them are not pronounced or are 'swallowed'

@@PeterDeprez You are not mistaken and it's a common fact that many Danes - including myself - don't watch modern Danish language movies unless they come with subtitles - their mumbling is often incomprehensible. On the other hand, I also struggle to understand modern spoken Swedish, though I read it without difficulty, but then the other day I watched a video about the switch from left-hand driving to right-hand driving in the early sixties and understood every spoken word. The hearing plays a role, I'm afraid, and the young people's desire to shovel out words at the speed of sound.

Which dialect?

Yes, I would like to see something on Faroese, too.

@@kilipaki87oritahiti both of the statements you've made are incorrect

Actually faroese retains quite a few dialects (historical remoteness of some islands there) but icelandic ones have been wiped out and we only have semi-dialects. Northeners around Akureyri and Húsavík pronounce some certain words different. It's not enough to constitute a dialect by linguists though. Some people from the Westfjords pronounce ng/nk differently also. P.s. it has been said to me that the south island/Suðuroy in the Faroes is most similar to icelandic 😉

Has he done Norn from Scotland?

I heard an Icelander say that everyone there has a story about seeing or meeting Bjork, because it's such a small country

Who's bjork

​@@nathandrake5544 It's true, I live close to her and often see her walking around the neighborhood in some crazy outfit. Icelanders don't really make a big deal out of seeing someone famous (even the president), since Iceland has such a small population.

@A S I'm Icelandic and I have never heard of her

@@bjornjonson2118 Björk Guðmundsdóttir. I'm very surprised you've never heard of her. She's probably one of the most famous Icelanders. Maybe you're very young.

Orcas seem to have quite differentiated dialects, too. I've just seen a short documentary which does not delve very deep (but how would that be possible?) into this, but it's fascinating. Makes me appreciate language diversity, too (and not just on the human side). I'm not trolling you, I just find that fascinating in an overarching way.

This was exactly my thought. My jaw was on the floor the whole time LOL. I can speak Swedish and German, and some of the basic grammar stuff makes sense to me but I couldn't understand 99.999% of what was being said. The only thing I could kind of make out was how to introduce yourself with your name.

@Rani Hinnawi still similarly difficult. I just tried typing in a few basic phrases into Google translate to see if I could make anything out. I think with great effort I could maybe fumble my way through a basic sentence or two (Hi my name is _____. I come from ______. I work as a _____.) It sure is a unique language! So much a part of the Nordics and yet so much its own thing!

so what you're saying is that icelandic is the final boss of germanic languages?!

It just seems that way when one is a beginner - Icelandic & Old Norse are super easy to learn, as the words are super pretty and easy to memorize, just like Dutch / English / Norwegian etc words, and I am already upper beginner level in Old Norse and Icelandic (close to intermediate level) after only studying them for a few months, along with the other languages that I am learning, and I know 1.500+ or 2.000+ words in each, and I am advanced level in Dutch and intermediate level in Norwegian / German / Swedish and writer level in English, and beginner level in Gothic / Danish / Faroese etc and the other Germanic languages!

Some pronunciation rules in Old Norse and Icelandic - in Old Norse, the letter Æ / æ is pronounced like an open A sound in many words, just like in Norwegian and like in the English word cat and like the AA in the Dutch words Maan and raam etc, but in words like mæra it is pronounced like a normal E sound, and it can also be pronounced like an EI sound, and in words such as grænn it is pronounced it is pronounced EI / ei (like the ay in the English word say) because it wouldn’t sound right with an open A sound, and in words like frænda it can be pronounced EI and E etc, while the HV in Old Norse can be pronounced in many different ways, like a HU sound, so the words hvat (what) and hvar (where) etc can sound like huat and huer, and can also sound like a HV sound, so, pronouncing them the same way they are spellt, by pronouncing both the H sound and the V sound, tho it’s not as easy, and, it can also be pronounced like in Norwegian, without the H sound, so, just saying vat or var instead of hvat or hvar, which seems like the most used one, because in many lines and in many word combinations that have hvat or hvar, one tends to pronounce it vat or var automatically, like, when I say, hvar þú auga fallt, I automatically say var without even thinking about it, so it’s a very natural pronunciation, and, one can even use the Icelandic pronunciation rule with a K sound instead of the H sound, so one can also say kvat / kvar etc, which is the Icelandic pronunciation, and all these pronunciations can be used in Old Norse, depending on the line and word combinations, so, depending on what sounds better in each line and what comes more naturally in each case, and, the G can sound like a K when it’s at the end of the word or when it’s in the middle of the word, and it can sound like a normal G when it’s at the beginning of the word, like in the English words get and go, and in some words the G is pronounced like an Y / I sound, which also has to do with the letter combinations and what makes the word sound better or right, so a word like hœgri is pronounced heoyri, which sounds way better than heogri, so, it’s also a very natural pronunciation, and the Á is usually pronounced like a normal O sound in Old Norse, tho in Icelandic it is pronounced AU in almost every word, and the U is usually pronounced like a YU sound (like the English word you and like the German Ü etc) in most words, depending on what feels easier and comes more naturally, so in words that have, say, two Us, the first U would be pronounced like a normal U, while the U that’s closer to the end of the word would be pronounced more like an YU or even more like an Y / I sound, as sometimes the U can become very soft in pronunciation when saying yu, especially when it is between two consonants, though in certain words the first U would be pronounced as a YU sound and the U that’s closer to the end would be pronounced like a normal U sound, so this also depends on the word, and, in Icelandic it’s like that as well, and also, in Icelandic the Æ / æ is pronounced AI like the English letter i in almost all Icelandic words, and the G is also pronounced like a K in Icelandic, in many words, so a word like gluggi (window) can sound like gluhki or kluhki, from what I could hear in Icelandic vocab videos, and, the LL is pronounced TL in Icelandic, in most words, and in Old Norse, it’s pronounced L, and in Faroese it is pronounced more like a DL sound, as Faroese pronunciation is kinda similar to Icelandic pronunciation, and, the letter F is pronounced like a V sound when it’s in the middle of the word in both Old Norse and Icelandic, and I think it’s also the same in Faroese, tho I’m not sure, and when it’s at the beginning of the word it is pronounced like a normal F sound, so, frænda sounds like freinda and drífr sounds like drívr or like drívuhr, because the sound that’s added in pronunciation before the last R (which is a sound that’s close to i or related to i which doesn’t seem to have an official letter in spelling) can also be pronounced like a schwa sound, especially in singing, as it comes more naturally like a schwa sound when singing, while when speaking it comes more naturally as the other sound, which is the same sound / vowel that’s used in pronunciation between the D and the N at the end of English words such as hidden / ridden etc, or in German words like schreiben, so it’s how the E (that’s between B and N) is pronounced in manny of the German verbs, and also in many of the English verbs that have an E between two consonants, and it’s pronounced quite softly, and more towards a schwa sound...

Respect to you. I've been to Iceland twice & love it. I met new residents there who were trying to learn & finding it really challenging also. I wonder just how many people moving to Iceland or marrying an Icelander ever become really comfortable & reasonably fluent though...

Yeh over 10 years out of 13-14 years in Icelandic classes in school are just learning how to spell and use proper grammar. The thing is most people don’t even speak it probably, making common mistakes like the Christmas song (for example) “ég hlakka svo til” where most people including the singer say “mér hlakkar svo til”

so hopefully children will be trilingual in Icelandic , Scots Gaelic and English? Interesting Combo

@@Kai-wf5tg That’s the plan!

@@logi-a My daughter is married to a Norwegian man, he complains about the grammar issues all the time, i understand that the grammar can be a big hurdle to get over but it is not important and you wonderful people who are learning should not in my opinion think about that, learn the words, we understand you even if the word doesn't have the exact right ending, start or whatnot. My advice and i am not an expert, learn the words, all the diddledos come later :)

You're right! In Welsh it is written as LL, as in LLEWELLYN, LLANDIDNO, etc.

I have never seen anyone claim that swahili has an unvoiced lateral. Do you have something to back this up?

When I heard it, I immediately thought about Mongolian! It just confirmed my senses, haha

@@Akaashi__ Mongolian has a VOICED lateral fricative, the one he is talking about is a voiceLESS lateral fricative

​@@manfredneilmann4305 They aren't the same sound, I'm afraid. The Icelandic one (/l̥/ in IPA) is just an ordinary "l", just pronounced with no voice. The Welsh sound is a voiceless alveolar lateral fricative (/ɬ/ in IPA), it is prounced further back in the mouth. But don't worry, they're so similar that they are almost undistinguishable from each other, and even Wikipedia puts them on one page: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_dental_and_alveolar_lateral_fricatives

My maternal grandmother's parents were Swedish and German, and apparently spoke in a similar manner when they didn't want their children to understand them. I don't know if they taught them any Swedish or German. Their oldest surviving child was born in 1913, and speaking foreign languages in America during World War I was discouraged, at the very least, and persecuted in some cases. My great uncle told me the story, when he was their last living child. He was born in 1926, and never learned any Swedish or German at all.

When Icelanders, Swedes, Norwegians, and Danes get together, they speak a kind of patois called "skandinavisk."

@@robertklose2140 Icelanders will have a hard time participating in that, the language is too far removed from the others. Danes don´t understand Swedish or Norwegian and vice versa, Norwegians and Swedes don´t understand Danish. None of them understand Icelandic. Norwegians and Swedes understand each other. From my experience, people tend to speak English, because everyone understands that with ease.

@@asbisi Skandinavisk is, as I said, a kind of patois that Icelanders do, indeed, participate in. As an Icelandic speaker, I've witnessed this many times.

What a nice experience 😂

I feel that with Old English.

Ich bin auch Deutscher. Ich interessiere mich fürs Isländische wegen Lazy Town bzw. Stefan Karl Stefanson (dem Schauspieler von Freddie Faulig /Robbie Rotten). Er ist ja Isländer gewesen. Lazy Town wurde ja in Island erfunden von Magnus Scheving (Sportakus).

The exact same applies to the dialects less influenced by Dano-Norwegian in Norway too. Our grandparents tend to use verbal forms like ‘eg hev’ (I have, ‘eg har’ is more common today) and in my specific area, the /ð/ sound is realised by a few old people and represented by an otherwise silent /d/ among the younger generation (eg. blad is normally pronounced /bla:/ but we pronounce it like /blad/ and the elderly sometimes like /blað/).

god i wish shakespeare came annotated like that, it's impossible to read without annotations but ive never seen a teacher provide an annotated version

flott

Good grief, how is your English so good?

@@FrerMartr Sometimes when my grandpa talks I just nod and smile haha

There's also the "preaspirated" stops (i.e., unwritten [h]s pronounced before voiceless stops).

It's also found in Scottish Gaelic and Hebridean English.

I thought the same! Like everyone's always just done a 10k run

I’ve also experinced that. And Finnish kinda too. Bu some languages that take it to the next lever are the Sámi languages. They are very breathy lol

Native English speaker here. I have described Icelandic as a "whisper" language. It sounds like native Icelandic speakers are whispering some of their words. Now I know why it sounds like that (to my ears). Thank you, Paul, for explaining the voiceless nasal consonants and the inhaling while speaking.

Shouldn't that be 'like Yoda, sometimes we sound'?

About a fourth of Icelandic blood is Irish. The Norse took a lot of Irish wives and also Irish in general on their way to Iceland. I imagine the Irish influenced the pronunciation a bit.

Gangi þér vel með þetta. Örugglega ekki auðvelt að læra íslensku bara vegna þess hversu lítið er til af kennsluefni þarna úti.

@@cyanide_breathmint Enda ekki stór markaður

Please say your maiden name is S Grant

@@Coffeeisnecessarynowpepper ?

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@Coffeeisnecessarynow ?

you know the American president Ulises S Grant

It’s also gendered and based on age. If you listen to two women who are middle aged or older speaking you’ll hear it very frequently.

Exactly the same even in Swedish (despite all our Hansa/plattyska vokabulär).

Also used in Ireland when speaking English, same two reasons largely.

@Prof. Spudd I am not sure. Uhr in German is a feminine noun and in Icelandic it's neuter. I thought he would mention more often the similarity between German and Icelandic. Such as the verb heita, ég heiti Schmul, ich heiße Schmul.

@@SchmulKrieger Yeah or Guten Tag. That was a very obvious similarity as well.

Old Icelandic used to have a very straightforward pronunciation but something has happened in those centuries of isolation.

@@luxy9530 Speaking a Flemish dialect and knowing German and English, I understood quite a few words especially from the written text. The grammar seems to be similar to German, only more old fashioned. I thought it would be impossible to learn Icelandic, but now I am not so sure ! Iceland is beautiful and I think they still require knowledge of their language to immigrate!

@@luxy9530 That’s because they are both cognates, not loanwords.

There are also double rhos with a smooth breathing on the first one and a rough breathing on the second one, like διάῤῥοια = diarrhoea. Rhos at the beginning of a word always took rough breathing. Even the letter "rho" itself (ῥῶ).

@@LittleWhole oh, didn't know they had double rho's, i suppose it was a geminated /r/, but ok

The little audio in the beginning gave me an impression that Icelandic sounds similar to Greek at times. Maybe there is some sort of phonetic convergence in unrelated or distantly related languages.

@@tranchedecake3897 Double rhos are voiced-unvoiced sequences.

All Germanic languages are fairly similar - However English is probably more related to East Norse since England was occupied by Denmark, Danish however changed a lot since then.

We actually kind of lack a word in between bæ & bless.. bæ is a bit too common to use with strangers and officials and bless is too harsh and rarely used in daily life.. eða hvað? ☺️

When i see that word "Bae" (Can't type that ae letter, my version is Ä), i think of the English word "Bae" (Short for Babe). Are you sure you guys aren't just calling each other "Babes" when you say farewell to each other? xD

Kind of funny and not an insult, but in Norway the sheep say bæ 🤣 But it is pronounced a bit different than the icelandic æ.

@@91rumpnisse no æ makes the ai sound in icelandic. In English it was historically used for the nasal a in cat

@@Somer-set segi oft sjáumst eða bæjó. Mæli með

In my own study of Swedish, I found the same thing: most of the words have cognates in English, though sometimes they're archaic, less frequently used, or the meanings have shifted in time (more often in English than in Swedish, that I've noticed).

@@MarkRose1337 And in Danish and Norwegian as well - in some cases it's just other archaic words. D forlade = E leave / OE forlætan D råbe [roa-be] / S ropa = E shout / OE hropan D hedde / S heta = E be called ( "carry the name" ) / OE hatan D muldvarp = E mole / ME molewarp, moldewarpa, moldwerp And so on and on 😉😪

"Jag kan svenska" makes more sense to me now that I know the etymology.

@@Komatik_ That doesn't make sense though? That's "I can Swedish".

@@MarkRose1337 Yes, but that's how it's said in Swedish. The video highlighted the etymology: kan comes from a word that means 'to know', not simply 'can do'.

Þórrsson and Þórsdóttir

@@EVO6- it’s a transliteration. Most English speakers don’t know what the letter ‘þ’ is or how it is pronounced.

@@cerdic6305 ðat’s a shæme

My family immigrated out of Iceland a few generations ago, so I have a "son" last name though I am a woman. The last name was essentially frozen in time by the generation who left Iceland, as we aren't carrying on the sson/dottir patronym tradition.

My grandma always loves talking about the Brit’s and the Americans that were stationed here. She was only around 4 years old but she remembers them giving her and her sibling chocolate and dancing with them. I’m glad your dad liked it here :)

I wouldnt say that i learned it but i am doing the same thing to read the eddas as a ✨hobbie✨

@@pedropinheiro9196 that is great! It is very difficult to reach that level. I can read Völuspa, but grógaldr is my favorite and it gives me trouble, havamal is difficult for me as well, but i try. For prose reading i enjoy the Fornnorræna sögur, most read pretty straight forward with predictable sentence structure. I study about 2 hours a day, and every week i feel like something really "clicks" suddenly, then it becomes a little more natural. I guess we just stay with it haha

@@pedropinheiro9196 I've been wanting to do that, but as with Chinese to read the 3 kingdoms, I gave up. but I still follow Jackson Crawford's videos.

@@magnuskarlkjerulf Can also depend on when people were born. My late father used to greet people with "bless".

In the part of Iceland I (and more my parents) grew up in "sæll og blessaður" was hello while "blessaður og sæll" was goodbyes 🤷‍♂️

Same goes for Icelanders reading Swedish :) I understand the most part, likewise in Norwegian and Danish but easiest to read Faroese. But talking it is a "whole nother arm" (allt annar handleggur).

Curiously, I find that Icelandic and Finnish sound somewhat similar when spoken quickly. Obviously they’re unrelated languages, I guess it’s just something about some of the phonemes

@@SJ-ym4yt What they have in common is that both emphasize all words on the first syllable, which is different from e.g. Swedish and Norwegian. Neither also have pitch accent. This makes them sound somewhat similar (if you don't listen to the words).

​@@kilipaki87oritahiti Det er også derfor man kunne sette norsk samtidlig på både sider av vest og øst-norrønt opdelingen - norge och norsk idag inneholder så mange dialekter at det er som en bro fra vest till øst-norrønt, på en måte. (English summary) I don't think it would be wrong to place norwegian *both* in west and east norse, thinking of Norwegian as the living language it is today, bridging a wide span of dialects.

@@kilipaki87oritahiti Ja, klart, men det er jo interessant at dialektene lengre nord og sør på Vestlandet ikke har lignende tonefall som islandsk (mitt inntrykk, jeg har tatt feil før).

I watched a video of various people from Norway talking. As an Icelander I couldn't understand all of it, but I could certainly tell who was from the more rural parts as the pattern of speech was closer to Icelandic.

Yeah, Icelandic and Norwegian are "just out of reach" to eachother. I'm Norwegian, and I can with some effort partially decrypt Icelandic. I've managed to read whole Faroese articles on Wikipedian without much trouble though. Å se islandske krimserier er en fryd da. Jeg må ha på tekst for å skjønne hva som sies, men det er herlig å høre på. Alltid artig når man skjønner enkelte ord eller hele fraser da! 😊

Im an Icelander living in Norway and I have svereral times asked people if they are fellow Icelanders, when hearing them speak Norwegian, only to find out they are from Sogn. The cadence and soundscape are very similar to an Icelander speaking Norwegian and not bothering to hide his accent.

Most unique, well, have you tried non-Indo-European languages ? 😛 Or even certain weird IE languages, like Irish...

@@gerald4013 It's unique cause the Scandiniavian languages evolved but Icelandic remained almost like Old Norse. It's like finding an island that still speaks Latin.

sardinian is close to latin, but have more influenceds and also evolved from latin directly.

@@lmatt88 except old Norse came there to settle not developed by their inhabitants.

@@gerald4013 I did, bro. Irish is hell, but not as hellish as Icelandic - plus Icelandic nowadays is the closest thing we have of old norse.

hrafna approves

Spoken it's very hard. Written to some extent possible when you know German the sound shift.

I would say you can pick up most of the words, or relate them to a word of the same root

Thing is, just like Sweden, if you go to Iceland, they won't even bother speaking to you in Icelandic. They'll just use English the whole time

And some of the modern Icelandic words are fun, using a cognate of flock (as in flock of sheep) to mean political party will forever stay in my mind :-)

Haha much love from a swede/icelander, appreciate the ambition. I myself struggle with my native tongue, you have a long journey ahead of you!

What I want to say is learning Icelandish is another thing, which will never be as easy as swedish, and will be much harder than German. (you know, German is comparatively a nuisance in germanic language)

@@eldurhagberg848 it'll interesting and fun🙂

@@user-yt8it5zi5y of course, but it's fun to try it at least

Me too, I had started with Norwegian but the 2 written standards and the millions of dialects discouraged me. Swedish has twice the amount of speakers and it's also official in Finland. it's cool you can communicate with Norwegians using Swedish as well.

Vertu tilbúinn fyrir sól allan sólarhringinn :)

@@zovisapphire Oh yes, we are making sure to get the black-out rooms at the hotels lol

@@Caine61 Or you can just stay in the capital, they have never have any sun. Just rain.

@@icelandinreallife2042 uss, ekki jinxa plís 🥺

Any examples?

@@manfredneilmann4305 They took the verb eyða (to destroy) to make the word eyðni, which has the meaning of AIDS.

It is a misspelling. We spell it as Faroese in English.

@@ferretyluv No, it is not. Look up "Faeroese" in Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, and you will find that spelling. "Faroese" is also listed, but as a variant spelling of the former term. In any case, You-Tube does not accept *either* spelling.

Þekkiru einhverja íslendinga sem búa í Québec?

@@gunnarinn90 Því miður ekki! ☹

You can still hear that in rural Sweden too, particularly in the north (and in Vestlandet, in Norway).

I want to add that ingressive sounds or sentences usually carry the same vibe. Like, semi tired, exacerbated, or slightly shocking.

Absolutely common in Danish. And I’ve been told also in Scotland and Ireland.

For an English (Ensk) speaker, it takes practice to avoid inhaling air, then burping/belching. já já (emphatic yes).

Absolutely! The pronunciation has changed a lot, though. A Viking would easily be able to read Icelandic (if literate) but would struggle with the spoken language.

noticed that too.. besides "flott" also means quick in German.

@@MichaelSpengler and eigen can mean peculiar. maybe that received its meaning as in "his own way"

In norwegian "eiga" or "eigen" means "own". Like in: - my own shoes, translating to: - Mine eigene sko or: - to own, translating to: -å eiga

Same in Swedish with "flott", has a very 1920-1950ies vibe to it. Would be interesting to know when "flott" entered Icelandic in this sense.

@@Asptuber in German it used to be used for songs that very rhytmic,as well.

How do you forget a language that an entire population in a country speaks?????😂😂😂 that isnt how languages work, for icelandic ti be forgotten there would have to be a form of colonialism in wich a languages majority in a country is imposed that isnt a thing in iceland sort of what french is in canada

As a person also born in the early 2000’s, i just recently got interest in learning more languages. I got interested in Icelandic due to revisiting a childhood favorite of mine LazyTown which has Icelandic origin.

Interesting but not sure I agree 100%. It may be true in comparison to for example English but in comparison to other nordic countries the opposite is true. For example each and every baby animal has a special word where in other countries it often is the same with another ending like "-unge" even if there are also many variations. Also every single animals gives birth with a seperate verb so for instance a horse will "kasta" its foal while a sheep will "bera" its lamm, a cat will "gjóta" and ONLY a woman will actually give birth "faeda".

Icelandic is not limited🙂, Im sure that you wouldnt fool any Icelander for 5 minuets, ( Im not guessing here.)

Maybe I was littlebit rude but here you have another ice verb for welding BRÆÐA.

Exactly what I was thinking about that some weeks ago

You should be proud! 😊 I love your country and tell all my friends to go visit. English is great online, but keep the Icelandic spoken word strong!

Im icelandic as well

icelandic is the second worst languaguage in the world, just behind danish.

@@tobbaeinars æði!

@@Whatismusic123 what do you mean by worst?

Thanks! I’m glad to hear that.

Exactly my thoughts! It struck me immediately. It is something I wouldn't expect from one of the Scandinavian languages, as over the centuries they have become simplified to a certain degree. Very cool indeed. (Slovak native speaker here, currently advancing in norwegian.)

To me it is very close to low German in which my grandmothers and great grandmother would speak. My great grandfather who was from Holland could talk to them and the neighbors from Iceland with no problems.

@@shannonfrericks1124 sounds like a Paulaner.

Já farðu varlega í Kaupmannahöfn/Danmörku. Mér líður stundum eins og 20% af mannskapnum hérna séu Íslendingar.

Me and my friends were speaking bad (using Icelandic ) about an old white man with a (too) young Thai girl in a random little town in thailand. To our surprise, when he heard us speak Icelandic he asked us “eruð þið íslendingar?” … luckily he didn’t hear exactly what we were talking about 😂😂😮😂 but that was a surprise.

Endilega útskýrðu þetta seinasta :)

"Endilega úrskýrðu þetta seinasta" quoth a replier (prithee explain the last comment). In some ways Iceland is more isolated now than ever before. We are governed by interest groups tied to political parties; we are reverting to a privileged nobility; we suffer from serious lack of clarity as regards constitutional law; we lack an independent court system, and only an artificial lack of definitions prevent us from being the most politically corrupt country in northern Europe. Closer ties with our European and Nordic origins, such as by membership of the EU, are prevented by the interests of the clientes of political patrones in maintaining this situation and preventing infringement upon their status by adoption of the Euro. I could say more, but this is not a forum for such postulations.

Mir geht's genauso

i think it's connected to "können" but perhaps können and kennen have the same root?

One funny thing is that the faroese use "við" for with and not með;)

One similarity is a loanword, though. Úr and Uhr ultimately come from Latin hora 'hour'.

Also, certain English dialects (particularly in Scotland) still use the work "ken", which means "comprehend", "understand", or "understanding".