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 Kazakh Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Kazakh is also known as Qazaq. It is a Turkic language of the Kipchak branch and is spoken in Central Asia. The language is closely related to Nogai, Kyrgyz, and Karakalpak. It is the official language of Kazakhstan and is a minority language in Xinjiang. Kazakh is also spoken in China and the Bayan-Ölgii Province of Mongolia. It is also spoken by ethnic Kazakhs in the former Soviet Union. The language is also spoken in Germany and Turkey. Just like many Turkic languages, Kazakh employs vowel harmony. Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev changed the writing system of the language. The Cyrillic to Latin script has been enforced till the year 2025. The proposed Latin alphabet was revised several times and was introduced in January 2021. The language has many Turkish alphabets, and lacks the letters C. Kazakh has four additional letters that include: Ä, Ñ, Q, and Ū.The language is scheduled to be phased in from 2023 to 2031.
