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  • @patronsaintoflostcauses4029
    @patronsaintoflostcauses40292 жыл бұрын

    Ísland vann þorskstríðin!

  • @einarjohannsson4620

    @einarjohannsson4620

    Жыл бұрын

    LEEETTTSSSGGOOOOO

  • @davie53

    @davie53

    Жыл бұрын

    Bíddu, þorskstríðin? Hvaða þorskstríð ertu að tala um?

  • @gubjorggisladottir3525

    @gubjorggisladottir3525

    Жыл бұрын

    @@davie53 huh? ertu að trolla? Landhelgin auðvitað!... útvíkkuð úr 6 mílum -> 12 -> 50 -> 200 mílur is.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Eorskastr%C3%AD%C3%B0in

  • @davie53

    @davie53

    Жыл бұрын

    @@gubjorggisladottir3525 "pólitískar deilur" já þess vegna hafði ég aldrei heyrt um þetta. Ég hélt þetta væri einhvers konar raunverulegt stríð á móti þorskum

  • @hermanntyrheimisson9168

    @hermanntyrheimisson9168

    Жыл бұрын

    Vonandi sjá bretar þetta ekki

  • @incoherentproductions992
    @incoherentproductions9922 жыл бұрын

    Remember, if you disagree with Connor's views on Icelandic purism, send them a clay tablet written in Sumerian instead of arguing about it in the comments section.

  • @ems4884

    @ems4884

    Жыл бұрын

    Sumerian ... Not Assyrian huh. So you prefer the slightly more pictographic elements of Sumerian over the beautiful patterns of pure cuneiform, do you? More seriously, i like your erudite humor. We should get a drink and chat.

  • @fossposs6408
    @fossposs64082 жыл бұрын

    icelandic purism could be interpreted as icelandic being "frozen" the rest of the germanic langauges are spoken further south after all

  • @sexydog

    @sexydog

    Жыл бұрын

    but Svalbard is further up north

  • @TheMrMe1
    @TheMrMe1 Жыл бұрын

    As an Icelander I've gotta say that your pronunciation of Icelandic is remarkably good

  • @Uulfinn
    @Uulfinn Жыл бұрын

    Language purism is a really interesting idea. For English, there is Anglish. Anglish only uses Germanic roots to create compounds like how German works. It's not meant to be serious. It's a fun experiment to show how much of the language can be expressed with a restricted vocabulary. Language purism is not a problematic thing. To me it shows the speakers have an interest and pride in their language. I love languages and loan words are so much more boring than calques. Calques are really awesome.

  • @202mc4

    @202mc4

    Жыл бұрын

    I'm becoming interested in purism for my native dialect of Italian. I understand that this is a niche within a niche within a niche, but I've been growing more fond of regional identities as opposed to national (but not supranational) ones, and I hate to see so many unique languages slowly agonize and die.

  • @basketman2517
    @basketman25172 жыл бұрын

    Good to know I’m not the only Icelandic enthusiast.

  • @MarinoMoons
    @MarinoMoons Жыл бұрын

    As an Icelander I approve of this video! or: Sem Íslendingur samþykki ég þetta myndband! I never accually realised how many pronouns there are, Thats a lot. or in Icelandic: Ég fattaði ekki hversu mörg fornöfn eru í tungumálinu okkar, þetta eru mjög mörg

  • @GameTornado01
    @GameTornado01 Жыл бұрын

    "Crawling Dragon" has gotta be the coolest word for tank I've ever heard

  • @HD-dq9kr
    @HD-dq9kr2 жыл бұрын

    06:05 questions in Icelandic don’t end with a raised tone

  • @icecoffee907
    @icecoffee9072 жыл бұрын

    I am not icelandic. But, I hope that the language revitalization efforts prove fruitful. I speak fluent Norwegian and can pick out some Icelandic words every once in awhile. And, I would love to learn Icelandic if it weren't for The limited resources.

  • @lasagnegut4863

    @lasagnegut4863

    2 жыл бұрын

    er du norsk eller bare kan du snakke norsk? jeg kan også forstå en god del islandsk men jeg skulle ønske jeg kunne faktisk lære det altså det er litt dumt at de har svensk, dansk og norsk på duolingo men ikke islandsk selv om norsk, svensk og dansk er mye mer likt en norsk og islandsk samme med svensk og islandsk og dansk og islandsk

  • @icecoffee907

    @icecoffee907

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nei, jeg er ikke nordmann. Jeg kan bare norsk. Men jeg synes det er et veldig vakkert språk. Og jeg har aldri møtt en nordmann heller. Men jeg er glad for å vite at jeg ikke er den eneste som har håpet på et islandsk Duolingo-kurs.

  • @icecoffee907

    @icecoffee907

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@lasagnegut4863 Men det er mye lettere for meg å forstå svensk enn islandsk. Men det kan være mer gjenkjennelig på grunn av sin popularitet. Det er også grunnen til at det ikke finnes islandsk på Duolingo. Men jeg har hørt at det kommer en snart.

  • @itshorky4634

    @itshorky4634

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@lasagnegut4863 IS: Ef þig langar að læra íslensku, mælir ég með að heimsækja "Íslenska fyrir alla" á vefsíðuna "tungumalatorg.is". Íslensk-norræn orðabók kannstu hitta á vefsíðuna "islex", þar færð þú, kyn, framburð og beyging af orðunum líka . NO: anbefaler "Íslenska fyrir alla" som er en god introduksjon. "islex" er islandsk-nordisk ordbok med uttale, kjønn og bøying. For verb/preposisjoner osv. nevnes evt. kasus som verbet/prep. styrer

  • @bjarkiorarson3546
    @bjarkiorarson3546 Жыл бұрын

    Icelander here. Nice video, although your pronounciation of "Björk" sounding like "Pjörk" was a little offputting. I know our pronounciation of soft consonants is sometimes just slightly more aspirated than in most european languages, but still B is not a P and D is not a T. Sorry, I worked with tourists for many years and loved teaching them some Icelandic, but very often I said a word with a soft consonant, and they repeated the word with a hard consonat :/ Anyway, it's just a thing I noticed as a native speaker working with foreigners. Also, Icelanders DO NOT raise their voice when forming questions. It stays pretty flat, just like when forming a statement, and I think Finnish works the same.

  • @Tingletonttu

    @Tingletonttu

    Жыл бұрын

    I don't think Finnish uses much of intonation at all or I'm just deaf to it. Btw. the feature of coining up new terms in favor of loans is shared with Finnish while Estonian is much more liberal in comparison. Telephone in Estonian is just telefooni while in Finnish it is puhelin (meaning something you use to speak).

  • @Johnnerss
    @Johnnerss Жыл бұрын

    As an icelander the icelandic prounonciations aren't that hard but the grammar is extremely hard for me+Getting corrected by every old woman

  • @hyoga4345
    @hyoga4345 Жыл бұрын

    As an Icelander, thank you for feeding into my patriotism and language nerdism. Your pronounciation isn't that bad. Not good mind you, but I could understand it lol.

  • @gsutta
    @gsutta2 жыл бұрын

    Can you talk about the Wymysorys language? It is really interesting

  • @ConnorQuimby

    @ConnorQuimby

    2 жыл бұрын

    Wymysorys is great and I do have a plan to make a video on minor Germanic languages

  • @gsutta

    @gsutta

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ConnorQuimby sounds good

  • @icecoffee907

    @icecoffee907

    2 жыл бұрын

    Can you tell me about it? It sounds like an interesting name. 💜 🖤

  • @gsutta

    @gsutta

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@icecoffee907 Wymysorys, also known as Vilamovian or Wilamowicean, is a West Germanic language spoken by the ethnic Vilamovian minority in the small town of Wilamowice, Poland, on the border between Silesia and Lesser Poland, near Bielsko-Biała. It is considered an endangered language, possibly the most so of any of the Germanic languages. There are probably fewer than 20 native users of Wymysorys, or circa. 70 speakers in 2006 according to Ethnologue, virtually all bilingual; the majority are elderly.

  • @icecoffee907

    @icecoffee907

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@gsutta that's so sad. As much as I am a person who speaks english, I really don't like the spreading of English as almost a worldwide lingua franca. As it grows, it pushes more language is down. And it sucks because language is definitely the key to the past. But unfortunately, a lot of languages only have a strict oral tradition. So all of their history, stories, art, songs and traditions Die with them and their language.. and nobody gives a shit with wings and an aerodynamic body structure about it. And thank God we have a lot of documentation on Icelandic. So that if it does go extinct, we could probably somewhat revive it. But so many interesting languages with cool features and so much to teach us, they just die.

  • @DJPJ.
    @DJPJ. Жыл бұрын

    I'm actually learning Icelandic in the university now.

  • @flameofmage1099
    @flameofmage1099 Жыл бұрын

    As someone trying to learn Icelandic... grammar is a struggle

  • @gubjorggisladottir3525
    @gubjorggisladottir3525 Жыл бұрын

    As a child, I was told that Icelandic was the only language (in europe?) that utter the words just as they are written... Then the are the exceptions... one of witch is: "before the letters "*ng" is written "a" but spoken "á"". I can not think of any other right now. 3:38 your pronunciation is very good and mostly correct. A bit "soft" on some consonants just to find something to critize.

  • @rateeightx
    @rateeightx Жыл бұрын

    I've always admired how Icelandic likes to calque words instead of just borrowing them, Ever since I looked up their words for Democracy and Republic one time. Definitely way cooler than Italian where they just take a bunch of English words, And pronounce and spell them the same as in English, Not even trying to work them into the orthography or grammar of Italian. Welsh uses a bunch of loanwords too, But atleast they have the decency to spell them as though they were native Welsh words. (Also they have a bunch from both English _and_ Latin, Which is fun as it adds more variety. Also cool when they have synonymous words from both, Like Sicr and Siŵr.)

  • @Warriorcats64
    @Warriorcats64 Жыл бұрын

    Nice to see this. This was the first language I tried to learn by myself, of course I was too old to learn like a baby and too young to discipline out the moving parts, and high school forced me to do Spanish. I only remember a few phrases (such as þegja) , but I do like hearing it, especially the breathing in phrases. It sounds so different from both English and German that it's hard to believe they're the same group.

  • @amandafournier9255
    @amandafournier9255 Жыл бұрын

    0:05 no im thinking of þ

  • @x2dk22
    @x2dk222 жыл бұрын

    Just discovered your videos, theyre amazing

  • @GG69BLIN
    @GG69BLIN2 жыл бұрын

    'And is almost as old as your mother'🤣

  • @aerobolt256
    @aerobolt2562 жыл бұрын

    love the xidnaf-rask connection

  • @tobbi11
    @tobbi112 жыл бұрын

    Everyone needs to stop apologizing for pronouncing Icelandic wrong, anyone not born in Iceland (or moved here very young) will just never do it right. when people try their hardest and look at us with hope and pride, "how was that"? and we say "not bad, not bad" we are lying, without exception it's terrible, but we honestly don't care since we would be asking the impossible.

  • @livboss
    @livboss Жыл бұрын

    fav thing I've heard ant Icelandic is that, in poetry, grammar is pretty flexible no clue if its true but its a dope fun fact

  • @ems4884
    @ems4884 Жыл бұрын

    Icelandic is definitely on my short list of languages I really would love to learn .. but shouldn't because the cost of time i would have to commit to it definitely outweighs the benefits i would get in opportunities to use it.

  • @maapauu4282
    @maapauu4282 Жыл бұрын

    Have you heard of Basque Icelandic pidgin?

  • @mollof7893
    @mollof78932 жыл бұрын

    Pjörk? Oh I justh remembert Islantikh has no voicet phlosives. Etith: To a pharth thwo!

  • @valoeo

    @valoeo

    2 жыл бұрын

    Don't you know how to speak English?

  • @mollof7893

    @mollof7893

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@valoeo I ton'th khnow, I þinkh so?

  • @pixunapixana
    @pixunapixana Жыл бұрын

    talk about basque-icelandic pidgin

  • @mezameku
    @mezameku Жыл бұрын

    Could anybody explain me what does the Glyphs per Phoneme mean? in 0:47 Thank you in advance

  • @ivarornoskarsson2974
    @ivarornoskarsson2974 Жыл бұрын

    Love you ❤

  • @ganganjijiji
    @ganganjijiji Жыл бұрын

    I've been trying to learn this language for a while, and I haven't found a single website or anything smh. Do any of y'all know of any way to learn Icelandic?

  • @morriskaller3549
    @morriskaller35492 жыл бұрын

    Tldr: Icelandic is Swedish with Polish grammar.

  • @Bend683
    @Bend68310 күн бұрын

    Good

  • @Bend683

    @Bend683

    10 күн бұрын

    i love it

  • @hankwilliams150
    @hankwilliams150 Жыл бұрын

    From what I have heard and seen, I think Icelandic spelling is more phonetic than Faroese and CERTAINLY better than English!

  • @HD-dq9kr
    @HD-dq9kr2 жыл бұрын

    00:45 none of these sounds are phonemes except for /au/

  • @jacobpottage6938
    @jacobpottage693814 күн бұрын

    Icelandic is the only reason I can use þorn.

  • @cassiopeiasfire6457
    @cassiopeiasfire64572 жыл бұрын

    also love icelandic

  • @jaca2899
    @jaca2899 Жыл бұрын

    Peark? What is that?

  • @SADGIRLZLOVEMONEY
    @SADGIRLZLOVEMONEY Жыл бұрын

    No i was þinking of Þ

  • @johnpritchard5410
    @johnpritchard5410 Жыл бұрын

    Danish hegemony?

  • @cyborggaming2987
    @cyborggaming29872 жыл бұрын

    BRING BACK Þ

  • @ronbird121
    @ronbird121 Жыл бұрын

    for me and many astur its a religious language. like latin for the child rap... jesuits.

  • @gabrielwysong6321
    @gabrielwysong63212 жыл бұрын

    sub-50 views club, lessgooo

  • @oh.69
    @oh.694 ай бұрын

    Icelandic is epic because of þorn

  • @TheMasaoL
    @TheMasaoL2 жыл бұрын

    The likes were at 69 but I had to like the video too. Im sorry OTZ

  • @carlosguillermo566
    @carlosguillermo56611 ай бұрын

    I can attest that Spanish prescriptivism really is cringe of the highest caliber. Though, in cases like Icelandic purism, I wonder how much power do institutions really have on linguistic trends. I love the idea of adapting foreign words to their native language, just because of the variety it helps maintain, but isn't it better to let people use whatever term feels natural to them? How can you even stop loanwords through standardization? (In case it isn't obvious, I'm a linguistics newbie)

  • @servantofaeie1569
    @servantofaeie15692 жыл бұрын

    English should be as pure as Icelandic

  • @she_ate
    @she_ate Жыл бұрын

    Pjörk

  • @hilton1717
    @hilton17172 жыл бұрын

    first! i love icelandic owo let's watch

  • @SADGIRLZLOVEMONEY
    @SADGIRLZLOVEMONEY Жыл бұрын

    Rusia english = ruslish like look = душол

  • @markusklyver6277
    @markusklyver62772 жыл бұрын

    amogus

  • @markusklyver6277
    @markusklyver62772 жыл бұрын

    ö

  • @ulli-dulli333
    @ulli-dulli333 Жыл бұрын

    gott myndband.

  • @claudiochanganaqui2048
    @claudiochanganaqui20484 ай бұрын

    Why Lithuanian🇱🇹is awesome!

  • @SADGIRLZLOVEMONEY
    @SADGIRLZLOVEMONEY Жыл бұрын

    Рш

  • @einarjohannsson4620
    @einarjohannsson4620 Жыл бұрын

    íslenska er svo létt

  • @Fubazur

    @Fubazur

    Жыл бұрын

    If you are icelander - yes🤣 I need to learn it, because I'm an Ukrainian refugee 😁

  • @penbunny9078
    @penbunny90782 жыл бұрын

    Please help me stop butchering your based language by teaching it to me.

  • @demosmemebrewery9916
    @demosmemebrewery99162 жыл бұрын

    4:32 bruh this HAS to be intentional

  • @Dominik-lc4pl

    @Dominik-lc4pl

    2 жыл бұрын

    ?

  • @demosmemebrewery9916

    @demosmemebrewery9916

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Dominik-lc4pl they're talking about grammatical gender and look at the colors they chose

  • @Dominik-lc4pl

    @Dominik-lc4pl

    2 жыл бұрын

    All genders are in white and there is some other red and blue text?

  • @demosmemebrewery9916

    @demosmemebrewery9916

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Dominik-lc4pl literally the trans flag

  • @Dominik-lc4pl

    @Dominik-lc4pl

    2 жыл бұрын

    Wrong colors

  • @rateeightx
    @rateeightx Жыл бұрын

    3:29 Skriðreki? Pathetic. *Laughs in chidí naaʼnaʼí beeʼeldǫǫh bikááʼ dah naaznilígíí*

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