![]() The letters C, Q, and W are only used in Icelandic words of foreign origin and some proper names that are also of foreign origin. Consonants in IcelandicĪll letters apart from the vowels listed above are considered consonants. The vowel length is determined by the consonants that follow the vowel: if there is only one consonant, the vowel is long if there are more than one, the vowel is short. Icelandic vowels may be either long or short, but this distinction is only relevant in stressed syllables: unstressed vowels are neutral in quantitative aspect. The letters a, á, e, é, i, í, o, ó, u, ú, y, ý, æ and ö are considered vowels. Sometimes the glyphs are simplified when handwritten, for example, æ may be written as ae, which can make it easier to write cursively. Eth is also used in Faroese, and while thorn is no longer used in any other living language, it was used in many historical languages, including Old English. Icelanders call the ten extra letters not in the English alphabet, especially thorn and eth, séríslenskur (“specifically Icelandic” or “uniquely Icelandic”), although they are not. Ææ and Öö are considered letters in their own right and not a ligature or diacritical version of their respective letters. In addition to that, it includes the letter eth (Ðð), transliterated as d, and the runic letter thorn (Þþ), transliterated as th. ![]() The Icelandic alphabet is a Latin-script alphabet including some letters duplicated with acute accents. There are furthemore three additional letters used for foreign words and one obsolete letter. The alphabet in Icelandic consists of 32 letters. ![]()
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