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What language do you find the most seductive, and what about it makes you feel that way? (reddthat.com)
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[–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Icelandic! Beautiful language, learned a bit for my honeymoon, it’s a bit of a time capsule to old Norse too.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Apparently there isn't a lot of language drift in Icelandic, it's one of the few languages that you can read texts from 1000 years ago without any significant loss of meaning. Unlike English where reading anything older than Shakespeare can prove difficult.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Yeah exactly! I think its remoteness helped it survive, only thing now it’s similar to I would say is Faroese.

    Re:Shakespeare yeah it’s the same with Scottish folk and Robert Burns, his poems written in auld Scots. Even for native speakers it takes a bit of time to code switch.

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