ICELANDIC LANGUAGES

Islenska, or Icelandic, is a language closely related to

English, but English has changed a lot over the the

years, and Icelandic hasn't. It's like a language fossil.

It is very old and complicated, and very hard to learn.

In ancient Iceland, they didn't use the alphabet, they

used runes. Not only were the runes used for spelling

words, but they were thought to have magic. For

instance, Thorn was written on doors to protect from

any kind of evil, like bad luck or evil monsters. The

rune Thorn looks like it's name, a thorn on a branch,

and it makes a "th" sound. Icelandic is an endangered

language, fewer and fewer people are speaking it. In

Icelandic, some words are spelled the same as in

English. For example, "knife" is pronounced

"k-n-i-f-e". There is a lot more I could tell you about

the Icelandic language, but that would take to long.