Sjuler wrote: "As far as I know, the only sound which Icelandic has
preserved better than all other Scandinavian dialects is the þ-sound (like
'th' in English 'thing')."
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Don't forget our lovely unvoiced resonants, which all you scandinavians seem
to have lost in some freak accident! ;)
unvoiced r, l, m, n are fun to say!
and wouldn't ð also be a 'preserved sound'?
i'm well aware that icelandic isn't anything like old norse was, but really,
it's mostly in the vowels and their surroundings (that would be lenght of
syllables), the consonant changes are minimal. (hmm.. same as with english,
really, their vowels are all messy nowadays.. compared to a thousand years
ago, at least)