The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
It was superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005). See also the corresponding entry in the current edition of Ethnologue.
| Population | 230,000 in Iceland (1980 WA). Population total all countries 250,000. |
| Region | Also spoken in Canada, USA. |
| Alternate names | ÍSLENSKA |
| Classification | Indo-European, Germanic, North, West Scandinavian. |
| Comments | No appreciable dialect differences (Nida 1972). Not inherently intelligible with Faroese. National language. SVO. Bible 1584-1981. |
