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lish and limited exposure to Icelandic have resulted in that Baldur’s Ice-
landic has characteristics which are different from the Icelandic spoken
in Iceland and moreover the changes have characteristics similar to the
changes which have occurred in related languages over the centuries.
Furthermore, it is also obvious that Baldur’s Icelandic is more like Eng-
lish than the Icelandic spoken in Iceland. This is seen in that the noun
declension (which is a distinction not shared by the competing lan-
guage) has to a certain extent been given up. Moreover it is pointed out
that the characteristics of the changes can be seen to have their origins
in Baldur’s incomplete acquisition of Icelandic (dative, genitive) and in
the characteristics of the Icelandic noun declension system.
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