"Where does Iceland want to be in the future? One cannot afford having 20 percent of the population not speaking the language. So this is really becoming an issue of social cohesion for Iceland ...

Nordic Journal of Migration Research, Vol. 7, No. 1 (2017), pp. 20-27 (8 pages) The Icelandic language has a central role in defining Icelandic nationality. Given its importance in defining Icelandic ...

Iceland’s official written and spoken language is Icelandic, which is a North Germanic language that descended from the Old Norse. Icelandic is the only living language to retain the use of the ...