Magnús Pétursson: Isländisch. Eine Übersicht über die moderne isländische Sprache mit einem kurzen Abriss der Geschichte und Literatur Islands. Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag. 1978. Pp. xii, 220 + map.

• Published in: Linguistica
• Main Author: Janez Orešnik
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: German; English; French; Italian; Slovenian
• Published: University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani) 1978
• Subjects: Magnús Pétursson; Isländisch. Eine Übersicht über die moderne isländische Sprache mit einem kurzen Abriss der Geschichte und Literatur Islands. Hamburg; Helmut Buske Verlag. 1978. Pp. xii; 220 map; Philology. Linguistics; P1-1091; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4312/linguistica.18.1.261-264; https://doaj.org/article/e180cf276cc64cb0a242a06dd3dac9da

Before the book under review, Magnús Pétursson (=MP) had published his doctoral dissertation about the articulatory phonetics of Icelandic (1974, in French) , a book on general and Icelandic phonetics, and another on general and Icelandic phonology (1976, 1978, both in Icelandic) in addition to a number of papers connected with phonetics and phonology: MP has now to be commended for having tackled a broader subject: Isländisch is an attempt at presenting an overall view of Iceland and Icelandic, especially the latter, to the German-reading public.