Icelandic

ISL

national

Alternate Names: Íslenska

Dialects: No appreciable dialect differences (Nida 1972). Not inherently intelligible with Faroese ,.

Status Notes: De facto national language.

Genealogy:

Indo-European
Germanic
North
West Scandinavian

Demographics: 230,000 in Iceland (1980). Population total all countries: 243,840.

Language Development: Fully developed. Bible: 1584–1981.

Typology: SVO.

Spoken In: Iceland

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Iceland