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Icelandic Dialects

All dialects of Icelandic have assimilated into the standard spoken language, but people from Reykjavík tend to speak a little differently from people from Akureyri, Egilsstaðir, Ísafjörður and other countryside towns and villages. For example, the word for hot dog in Icelandic is pylsa ; in Akureyri, they would say pil-sah but in Reykjavík you often will hear pulsa . Another example is the word for to want , langar : in Ísafjörður (the northwestern part of Iceland), you often will hear lahng-ar but in Reykjavík you will hear lángar.

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Sources

Book: Learn to Speak Icelandic: without even trying, Stephen Hernandez

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