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Íslenska Icelandic
Family	Sub-family	Language of	Script
Indo-European	Germanic	Iceland	Extended Latin

The alphabet contains 32 letters.

Pronunciation in Icelandic is very regular compared to English, with a few exceptions.

Vowels	IPA	Sampa	Comments
A a	[a]		as a in "cat"
E e	[ɛ]		as e in "met"
I i	[ɪ]
Íí	[i]
Yy	[ɪ]
Ýý	[i]
Oo	[ɔ]
Uu	[ʏ]
Úú	[u]
Öö	[œ]
Consonants	IPA	Sampa	Comments
B b	[p]
D d	[t]
Ð ð	[ð]		[θ] before an unvoiced consonant and as the final sound
F f	[f]		[p] between a vowel and l, n. [v] after vowels
G g	[k]
H h	[h]		as h in "help"
J j	[j]
K k	[k]		as k in "kill"
L l	[l]		as l in "law"
M m	[m]		as m in "month"
N n	[n]		as n in "name"
P p	[p]		as p in "palm"
R r	[r]		as Spanish r or dd in "ladder"
S s	[s]		as s in "sail"
T t	[t]		as t in "top"
V v	[v]		as v in "vibe"
X x	[xs] / [ks]
Z z	[s]		Z is archaic.
Þ þ	[θ]
Dipthongs	IPA	Sampa	Comments
Au au	[øy]
Á á	[au]
Ææ	[ai]
É é	[jɛ]
Ó ó	[ou̯]

Letter frequencies

The most common letters in Icelandic are n and a. The list below shows the letter frequencies for more letters in order of descending frequency.

Letter	Frequency
n	9.395%
a	9.395%
i	8.563%
r	8.543%
e	6.369%
s	5.434%
ð	5.013%
t	4.872%
u	4.766%
g	4.299%
l	3.891%
m	3.365%
k	3.115%
f	2.582%
h	2.266%
v	2.223%
o	2.019%
þ	1.592%
á	1.549%
b	1.365%
í	1.338%

Hear the language

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Introduction · Adjectives · Adpositions · Articles · Irregular verbs · Lexicon · Nouns · Numbers · Pronouns · Questions · Sounds and Writing · Verbs · Vocab

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