About Icelandic Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Icelandic is the official North Germanic language. It is spoken by over 314,000 people in the world. Most of the native speakers are living in Iceland where it is considered the national language. However, this language is a little more conservative as compared to other German languages. This language features western Norwegian dialects. Even the four cases synthetic grammar is also unique. Surprisingly, the written form of this language is not changed much since the 13 century. Icelandic is also quite similar to Faroese especially the written form. It remains distinctive when compared with English and German. Apart from the native speakers in Iceland, this language is also popular in Denmark. Icelandic is spoken by 8000 people in Denmark and around 1400 in Canada.
About German Language
According to Wikipedia.org, The German language is widely spoken in Germany and Austria. It is also the official language of Switzerland. The German language is associated with the West Germanic group. This language is linked with the Indo-European language family along with English, Frisian, and Dutch. In the 1st century BCE, the native speakers got in touch with Romans. Due to this even Romans are also linked to the Germanic language. There is a little difference in the dialect especially when we compare it from the 6th century CE. The nouns, pronouns, and adjectives consist of both strong and weak verbs. German is spoken by 90 million speakers all over the world. Many people also study it as a foreign language. When it comes to written form German differs from the Austrian and Swedish languages.