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Old 01-07-2016, 09:13 PM   #6
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Interesting.

One of the interesting things about the Icelandic language is that it is very consistent in the placement of the accented syllable. In Icelandic, essentially every word is accented on the first syllable. Every word, that is, except one: hallo, which is used only in answering the telephone, is accented on its second syllable. The textbook I'm using (I like to study languages) hints that there may be other words in Icelandic that are accented on some syllable not the first, but it gives no examples, and states the rule as basically absolute.
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