Which letter is unique to the Icelandic alphabet?
Icelandic orthography Icelandic orthography Icelandic orthography is the way in which Icelandic words are spelled and how their spelling corresponds with their pronunciation. The Icelandic alphabet is a Latin-script alphabet including some letters duplicated with acute accents; in addition, it includes the letter eth (), transliterated as "d", and the runic letter thorn (), transliterated as "th" (see picture); and are considered letters in their own right and not a ligature or diacritical version of their respective letters. Icelanders call the ten extra letters (not in the English alphabet), especially thorn and eth, ("specifically Icelandic" or "uniquely Icelandic"), although they are not.
Icelandic language The complete Icelandic alphabet is: The letters with diacritics, such as ' and ', are for the most part treated as separate letters and not variants of their derivative vowels. The letter ' officially replaced ' in 1929, although it had been used in early manuscripts (until the 14th century) and again periodically from the 18th century. The letter ', which had been a part of the Icelandic alphabet for a long time but was no longer distinguished from ' in pronunciation, was officially removed in 1973. As Icelandic shares its ancestry with English and both are Germanic languages, there