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anemone-screams · 4 months

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I just love your language, Iceland ♡

#langblr #icelandic #icelandic language #foreign languages #language learning

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unbfacts · 8 months

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#iceland #icelandic language #facts #language

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artsyaech · 1 year

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okay I love language so I wanted to say: the Icelandic language is so beautiful!!!! Are there any fun facts about it you’d like to share or favorite Icelandic words you have?

ooo imma have a field day with this one!

so fun fact: the icelandic language is the most gendered language i’ve ever come across. i’m making a video essay about it. so basically:

objects have genders “hann stóllinn” (he chair) “hún mjólkin” (she milk) “það sjónvarpið” (it tv) (the translations sound so ridiculous lol) this is similar to french. you know what gender a word is based on its ending, usually. masculine words end with “inn” , feminine with “in” and neutral with “ið”. this is only when a greinir is added to the end (hard to explain).

adjectives also have genders depending on who you’re referring to. “hún er svöng” (she is hungry) “hann er svangur” (he is hungry) “það er svangt” (it is hungry) so if you wanted to use the recently coined pronoun hán, you’d use the same adjectives as you would for the “it” pronoun.

hán was actually put in the dictionary! i think we’re the first country to oficially put a neopronoun in the dictionary. hán is a blend of hún and hann, making it a good gender-neutral pronoun. it also fallbeygst (bends) really well. i’ll explain that better in my video essay

my favorite words… hmm

my favorite name of a place is without a doubt the small town fáskrúðsfjörður because it’s funny to see non-icelandic people say it.

my favorite noun is probably drengur meaning boy, óskasteinn meaning “wishing stone” (it’s an icelandic thing) and spasl/stúss/bauka which basically means… i cant explain it lol @moth-season help?

if you want more icelandic knowledge and want to make lexic terms i’d be happy to help

#aech’s asks #iceland #icelandic language #icelandic

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medlabmech · 8 months

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To someone who understands Icelandic

Can you help me understand all this abundance of Icelandic words and phrases in God of War Ragnarok?

I'll provide help with the Greek in the Greek saga in return, uwu

#god of war ragnarok #question #help #icelandic language #fighting Einherjar is like that think where you're awkwardly sitting around as someone is swearing at a language you don't know

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aoscf77 · 1 month

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DAILY LANGUAGE MERGE 3: ICELANDIC - FRENCH

Sample text: Tuws huwmænnes e naisen fria eg igau eð reisn eg droittin. Þils seru dæggir sunsuw eg samvisky eg ssuwd eð starf huwer tuwr æw i anda brað. ---------------------- All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

#daily language merge #constructed language #conlang #french language #french langblr #icelandic language #icelandic langblr #lowkey hate this #also sorry for posting this late my mom wouldn’t leave me alone yesterday

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taispinimoragam · 1 year

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Just found out that in Icelandic they call Dermatology (the Icelandic equivalent of) "skin lore" cause they never adopted the Greek and Latin Suffixes and prefixes as heavily as English did and so stuck to the Germanic way if expressing it.

Edit: Apparently this translation is innacurate. I had read this in a book, but apparently it is false. Apologies.

#this is infinitely fascinating to me #also I find the word ''skinlore'' really funny #my dad didn't appreciate this tidbit of information but I know you linguistics freaks on tumblr like me wwill appreciate it #Icelandic #icelandic language #icelandic langblr #germanic languages #Germanic #proto germanic

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learningthroughthegrapevine · 10 months

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Anyone have any resources for Icelandic? This is the most beautiful sounding language I’ve ever heard in my life and I want to learn it one day!

I’m still trying to reach a conversational level in Korean, so it might be a while before I start learning another language. However I’ve become a bit of a language nerd over the past few years of studying on my own. I haven’t been able to find another language as interesting to me as Korean is until now.

It’s absolutely incredible!

#langblr #language #Icelandic #icelandic language #language learning

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chenopodiumlang · 2 years

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Icelandic learning log: 1st of June

Guess who's back! I'm trying to sort my life out, which involves getting back to my hobbies, which, in turn, involves this blog. I don't know if I'll do any challenges or establish a post format, but here's what I did today:

~ 40 min of various listening (news + podcast)

25 min of active reading (I've pirated a Harry Potter book)

30 min of writing (I ended up with about half a page where I express some thoughts in simple terms but I'm still happy I can do that after a break)

And that's it. Maybe it's not too much but that's pretty big for me after doing practically nothing for weeks!

#yeah and I'll stick with the low effort formatting for now #canva is only available via vpn for me but idk if i want to do post headers etc even anymore #anyway I'm back yaayyy #langblr #studyblr #tongueblr #icelandic #icelandic language #icelandic langblr #íslenska #polyglot

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er-cryptid · 2 years

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#studyblr #notes #language #langblr #icelandic #icelandic langblr #icelandic language #icelandic phrases #icelandic vocab #icelandic vocabulary #language learning #vocab #vocabulary #phrases #personal phrases #personal phrases in icelandic #icelandic personal phrases

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alenasbdesign · 11 months

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Happy Independence Day, Iceland!

#Iceland #Island #nordic #north #arctic #Ísland #Reykjavík #North Atlantic Ocean #Arctic Ocean #anthem #national anthem #Icelandic #Icelandic language #text #Lofsöngur

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anemone-screams · 1 year

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✨️ New year, new intro ✨️

🥨 My name is Judit▪︎

she/her 27 y.o.

🥯 genshin impact, acpc, pokémon

🥯 bookworm (ya, sci-fi, fantasy, thriller, horror, self-help, manga)

🥯 makeup enthusiast

🥯 journaling

🥯 penpalling

🥯 monster high

🥯 learning arabic and icelandic (langblr community where u at?)

#langblr #arabic language #islenska #genshin impact #acnh #acpc #animal crossing #pokemon #makeup #booklr #bookworm #penpals #journaling #self care #monster high #icelandic language #polyglot #alt fashion #alt makeup

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hcm92random · 11 months

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#pride #drops language app #icelandic language #nonbinary #ég er kynsegin #😏#i know google translate is not the most reliable #but i found this funny

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sarcasmchandlerbing · 1 month

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ratsarecute4 · 2 years

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My favourite thing about (most) Germanic languages:

Norwegian: due (pigeon), drue (grape)

Danish: due (pigeon), drue (grape)

Swedish: duva (pigeon), druva (grape)

Dutch: duif (pigeon), druif (grape)

Afrikaans: duif (pigeon), druif (grape)

Frisian: duif (pigeon), druif (grape)

German: Taube (pigeon), Traube (grape)

A few notable outliers: English, Scots, Icelandic

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canisalbus · 2 months

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I'm Italian and a new follower, ever since I saw the region where Machete is from I can't stop calling him Carmelo in my head since it's a pretty common name there and Vasco speaks with a Tuscan accent in my head now( I love how they pronounce the letter C even if people sometimes makes fun of them for that)

It's always really fun hearing about any Italians that like my work and characters, because you guys obviously have the insider knowledge I (a Finnish person) am not privy to. If you say Machete looks like a Carmelo I have hard time doing anything but nodding and going "ah yes, sounds legit, you probably know your Carmelos better than I do".

#Italian in it's standard form sounds pretty distinct to me it's relatively easy to identify it #but there's no way I'd be able to differentiate between all the regional accents/dialects/languages #answered #anonymous #for comparison I can't tell spoken Swedish Norwegian and Icelandic apart reliably #even though they're our neighbors and I hear them pretty regularly and I'm technically supposed to be able to speak Swedish #on top of that I'm always mixing up Danish and Dutch

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yvanspijk · 12 days

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Dear means 'valued; precious; beloved'. However, in certain expressions it also means 'expensive', such as in to cost dear. This meaning, inherited from Proto-Germanic, became dominant in cognates of dear, such as Dutch duur, German teuer, and Swedish dyr. The infographic tells you the whole story.

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