Languages of Iceland

Languages of Iceland

Iceland, a small island nation of the North Atlantic with only 300,000 people, is linguistically very homogeneous: virtually everybody is a native speaker of Icelandic, which is the only official language.The Icelanders take pride in their language an in preserving its purity.However, many people also have a good knowledge of English and Danish and consume much written material in these languages.


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