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... Icelandic . In the period when the Scandinavian languages in continental Europe became essentially uninflected , Icelandic preserved Old Scandinavian grammar almost intact . The native Bible became a basis for the further development of ...
... Icelandic . In the period when the Scandinavian languages in continental Europe became essentially uninflected , Icelandic preserved Old Scandinavian grammar almost intact . The native Bible became a basis for the further development of ...
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... Icelandic a is pronounced as the diphthong sound ai ( as the i in En- glish " ice " ) . Icelandic also uses accents on vowels that were long in Old Norse but are now mostly diphthongs ( á , é , í , ó , ú , and ý ) ; Faeroese has the ...
... Icelandic a is pronounced as the diphthong sound ai ( as the i in En- glish " ice " ) . Icelandic also uses accents on vowels that were long in Old Norse but are now mostly diphthongs ( á , é , í , ó , ú , and ý ) ; Faeroese has the ...
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... Icelandic þér , Faeroese tygum , and New Norwegian de or dykk ) or the 3rd person plural ( Danish or Dano - Norwegian De ) ; in Icelandic and Faeroese old duals have taken over the function of plurals ( Icelandic við " we , " þið " you ...
... Icelandic þér , Faeroese tygum , and New Norwegian de or dykk ) or the 3rd person plural ( Danish or Dano - Norwegian De ) ; in Icelandic and Faeroese old duals have taken over the function of plurals ( Icelandic við " we , " þið " you ...
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