Icelandic
North Germanic language mainly spoken in Iceland
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Summary
Icelandic is a natural language[1]. Icelandic ranks in the top 7% of natural language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,017 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Iceland[3], Denmark[4], United States[5], Canada[6]
- Instance of: modern language[7]
- Follows: Old Icelandic[8]
- Subclass of: West Scandinavian[9], North Germanic[10]
- Writing system: Latin script[11], Icelandic alphabet[12], Icelandic Braille[13]
- Commons category: Icelandic language[14]
- Wikimedia language code: is[15]
- Topic's main category: Category:Icelandic language[16]
- Language regulatory body: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies[17]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 321,040[18], 358,000[19]
- Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Q133822602[20]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22], The American Cyclopædia[23], New International Encyclopedia[24]
- Topic has template: Template:Icelandic language[25]
- Has characteristic: agreement[26]
- Native label: Íslenska[27]
- Short name: исландский[28], ісландська[29], исландиаг[30]
- UNESCO language status: 1 safe[31]
- History of topic: history of Icelandic[32]
- Indigenous to: Iceland[33]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/ISL[34]
- Has grammatical case: nominative case[35], accusative case[36], dative case[37], genitive case[38]
- Has tense: present tense[39], past tense[40], future tense[41]
- Has grammatical mood: indicative[42], subjunctive[43], imperative[44]
- Ethnologue language status: 1 National[45]
Why It Matters
Icelandic has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[46] Icelandic is known by 56 alternative names across languages and contexts.[47]