Icelandic orthography

Icelandic orthography

Icelandic orthography is the way in which Icelandic words are spelt and how their spelling corresponds with their pronunciation.

Function of symbols

This section lists Icelandic letters and letter combinations, and how to pronounce them using a narrow International Phonetic Alphabet transcription. Thráinsson, Höskuldur. Icelandic in "The Germanic Languages", 2002, eds. König, Ekkehard; van der Auwera, Johan. pgs 142-52. Routledge Language Family Descriptions] See to know when a vowel is long or short. The chart below is incomplete:

ee also

* N-rule

External links

* [http://mentalcode.com/icelandic/prono.php http://mentalcode.com/icelandic/prono.php]
* [http://www.hi.is/~eirikur/ptg_ice.pdf http://www.hi.is/~eirikur/ptg_ice.pdf]

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