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 ...

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 ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — 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 unexpected ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — When an Icelander arrives at an office building and sees “Solarfri” posted, he or she needs no further explanation for the empty premises: The word means “when staff get an ...

Iceland's former prime minister, Katrin Jakobsdottir, has said the country's mother tongue could fade away within a single generation as artificial intelligence and English-language media reshape how ...

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 ...