IslandaisLislandais (íslenska) est une langue germanique parlée principalement en Islande, dont elle est la langue officielle. L'islandais fait partie de la branche occidentale des langues nord-germaniques, et possède à ce titre des similarités avec le féroïen. Elle est issue, comme les autres langues scandinaves, du vieux norrois. Histoire de la langue islandaise Elle a pour racine historique le norrois, qui était pratiqué depuis le Moyen Âge dans les pays scandinaves (Suède, Danemark, Norvège et Islande).
OcclusiveIn phonetics, an occlusive, sometimes known as a stop, is a consonant sound produced by occluding (i.e. blocking) airflow in the vocal tract, but not necessarily in the nasal tract. The duration of the block is the occlusion of the consonant. An occlusive may refer to one or more of the following, depending on the author: Stops, or more precisely, oral stops—also known as plosives—are oral occlusives, where the occlusion of the vocal tract stops all airflow—oral and nasal. Examples in English are (voiced) b, d, ɡ and (voiceless) p, t, k.
Distinctive featureIn linguistics, a distinctive feature is the most basic unit of phonological structure that distinguishes one sound from another within a language. For example, the feature [voice] distinguishes the two bilabial plosives: [p] and [b]. There are many different ways of defining and arranging features into feature systems: some deal with only one language while others are developed to apply to all languages. Distinctive features are grouped into categories according to the natural classes of segments they describe: major class features, laryngeal features, manner features, and place features.