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    Default How does Icelandic sound to you?

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    Imo the best sounding of the Germanic languages.

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    I noticed that the Scandinavian languages as well as Greek do not have the S sound like in the other languages. It's as though they pronounce it like a Th.

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    Default How does Icelandic sound ?

    A bit like Swedish. It has always seemed to me that there was a progressive softening of pronunciation from Icelandic through Swedish and Norwegian to Danish.

    I heard it said in my boyhood [LONG ago]that "A Norwegian sounds like a drunken Swede and a Dane sounds like a drunken Norwegian." Nobody paid any attention to Icelandic in those days, though it is almost identical with Old Norse, or the remark could have been expanded to include "A Swede sounds like a drunken Icelander."


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