The Enigmatic ICELANDIC Language

This video is all about the Icelandic language, an Insular North Germanic language (along with Faroese). It can be also be classified as a member of the Western branch of the North Germanic languages (along with Faroese and Norwegian) because it developed mainly from Western dialects of Old Norse. Icelandic is said to be the closest North Germanic language to Old Norse (meaning Old Icelandic as it appears in old literature like the Icelandic sagas). Icelandic retains much of the inflection that existed in Old Norse. Contrast that with English which has lost most of the inflection that existed in Old English - a language which was very similar to Old Norse. The fascinating result is that Icelandic feels just like a familiar but somewhat distant cousin of English. And for anyone who has studied Old English, the relation will seem much less distant. Video credits: ►Producer, writer, and host: Paul ►Video editing and visual effects: Luis Solana Ureña (Acribus Studio) ►Special thanks to Gummi (Guðmundur) Heimisson for his Icelandic audio samples, feedback and suggestions. Images licensed from istockphoto.com --------------------------------------------------------- Support Langfocus on Patreon: https://patreon.com/Langfocus. Current Patrons include these fantastic people: AmateurTextualCriticism Andrew Doehler Auguste Fields Bennett Seacrist Bill Walderman Brian King Bruce C CFitz17 Chuck Davis Irina Bruce Italy Made Easy Jacob Madsen John Moffat Karl-Erik Wångstedt Kirk Kirkpatrick Michael Arbagi Michael Cuomo Michael J Synnott Mody Neil Sills Nobbi Lampe-Strang Paul Falstad Rosalind Resnick Ruben Sanchez Jr ShadowCrossZero Ulf Hermjakob Vincent David Walter Moore Wolfgang Egon Schroder Yuko Sunda Aaron Chow Abdullah Al-Kazaz Adam Vanderpluym Aitona Al Fung Alana Kalinowski Aleksei Alen Alex McKenzie Ali Muhammed Alshehri Alice Amittai Aviram Andrew Woods Anthony Kinread Anthony Peter Swallow Aous Mansouri Ashley Dierolf Bartosz Czarnotta Ben Benjamin Tipton Billy Billy Brent Warner Brian Begnoche Bruce Stark chris brown Chris Shifman Christian Langreiter Christopher Lowell contumaciousCulimancer Cyrus Shahrivar Darek David Eggleston David Golub David LeCount Dean Cary Debbie Diana Fulger Diane Young DickyBoa Dina Trageser divad Divadrax Don Ross Donald Tilley Doug Drew Gatewood Edward Wilson Elijah Double Emilia Bruns Eric Loewenthal Eric Nutt Fabio Martini fatimahl frederick shiels G Bot George Shi Grace Wagner Grégoire Le Corre Guillaume Brodar Gustavo Villegas Henrik Flyvbjerg Herr K Howard Clark Hugh AULT Ihor Khodzhaniiazov Ina Mwanda IUVENIS J Choi James and Amanda Soderling James Lillis JAMES ORR Jay Bernard Jaye Ferrone Jens Aksel Takle Jesús Horacio Báez Ávila Jim Browne Jim McLaughlin JL Bumgarner Johannes John E. McLaughlin John Flanagan John Gavin John Hyaduck Jonathan Hutchins Josh Rotenberg Julie Sriken Kimball Pierce Konrad Konstantin Bredyuk KW Lance Bedasie Laura Morland Lee Dedmon Leo Barudi Lincoln Hutton Lissette Talledo Louie dela Fuente Luke Jensen m Manuel Rosales Margaret Langendorf Margrét Mark Mark Bonneaux Mark Judge Mark Kemp Markzipan Martin Blackwell Merrick Bobb MH Michael Regal Mike Frysinger Mohammed A. Abahussain Mário Pegado Naama and Geoff Shang Nicholas Gentry Nick Michaels Nicolas Elsishans Nicole VanderVoort Niro Ondra Oto Kohulák Patrick smith Patriot Nurse Paul Shutler Peter Andersson Peter Nikitin Peter Scollar piero Piri JAKAB VON SZENGELICE Raymond Thomas Richard Kelly Robert Brockway Roger Smith Roland Seuhs Ronald Brady Rosemary Wyman Ryan Rubinstein S. P. Sergio Pascalin Sheila Perryman Sierra Rooney Sigbjørn Nerland Simon Blanchet SJWS SocialNationalist Srga91 . Srinidhi Srinivas Stefan Reichenberger Steven Severance Suzanne Jacobs Tara Pride Theophagous Thomas Chapel Thomas Gijsbers Tim Hopmann tomas o dathail Tony DeSantis Ty Ovendale Vinicius Marchezini Vitor Warren McKenzie William MacKenzie William O Beeman Yagub Alserkal Yeshar Hadi Yuriy Vrublevskiy Yuval Filmus Zachary Root zhangyimo Éric Martin Вайзефакнот ********************