Icelandic

A language of Iceland

ISO 639-3

Alternate Names

Íslenska

Population

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

Location

Also in Canada, Denmark, United States.

Language Status

1 (National). De facto national language.

Classification

Dialects

No appreciable dialect differences (Nida 1972). Not inherently intelligible with Faroese [fao].

Typology

SVO

Language Development

Fully developed. Bible: 1584–1981.

Language Resources

Writing

Latin script.