The digital age is killing the Icelandic language, said Ingibjörg Rósa Björnsdóttir. Alas, it simply isn’t cost-effective for any company to create IT interfaces in Icelandic, a language spoken by ...

Before coming to Iceland, I thought I should learn some Icelandic. Logical enough, right? I started off with memorizing “já” (yes), “nei” (no) and “takk” (thank you). I was feeling confident. But ...

In Iceland's parliament, six cleaners take a break from their duties to spend time learning Icelandic, seen as one of the principal barriers to integration in the country.

Two centuries ago experts predicted that Icelandic would be a dead language by now. But the doomsayers can eat their words: Icelandic is alive and kicking despite an onslaught of English brought on by ...

This article and radio report by Patrick Cox for The World in Words originally appeared on PRI.org on June 3, 2015, and is republished here as part of a content-sharing agreement. Jón Gnarr is best ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — When an Icelander arrives at an office building and sees “Solarfri” posted, they need no further explanation for the empty premises: The word means “when staff get an ...

In Iceland's parliament, six cleaners take a break from their duties to spend time learning Icelandic, seen as one of the principal barriers to integration in the country. Of the roughly 400,000 ...