Where is Icelandic headed?

One of my dreams is to learn Icelandic.

Katla () is a large volcano in southern Iceland.

Among them, Ari Páll Kristinsson who is in charge of language planning at the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, the Icelandic government's language research agency.

Some linguists believe that the tipping point for Icelandic the moment when it may truly leave the hearts of Icelanders would be when the country s poets and novelists stop writing in Icelandic.

There are several possibilities for the future of Icelandic. Here are two.

Just like her Icelandic husband. They speak to each other in Icelandic.

A mini Icelandic language lesson on the back of Icelandair's headrest.

The Icelandic authorities have put emphasis on supporting the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000).

You can even pretend you re not Icelandic. Norland didn t go that far. In fact, today, he s writing in Icelandic again.

Here s the second, rosier possibility Immigration may give Icelandic a boost.

Other vital traditions of Icelandic music are epic alliterative and rhyming ballads called rímur.

She has lived in Iceland for 7 years, and says she picked up Icelandic quite quickly.

Kahssay is probably the world s only Ethiopian who speaks better Icelandic than English.

Icelanders responded differently. Usually, along the lines of, I am Icelandic because I speak Icelandic.

But they don t speak as good Icelandic as I do, says Gnarr. It s a drastic change in a very short time.

The Icelandic authorities had believed they were minimizing the harmful consequences of their decision by instructing Icelandair to warn certain Falun Gong members that they would be denied entry into the country and that there was no point in purchasing an airline ticket.

The afterschool program where I work has all these posters up on the wall now Icelandic is our mother tongue, she says.

After the visit, Icelandic authorities had destroyed all but one copy of the list of banned Falun Gong members.

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She is fluent in several languages but says she would only ever write in her mother tongue. I think that the world needs stories that are told in Icelandic. Which is what Ólafsdóttir does.

I had a teacher who would her children, she said they could swear all they wanted as long as they used Icelandic swearwords.

If an Icelandic sentence has a translation in English, and the English sentence has a translation in Swahili, then indirectly, this will provide a Swahili translation for the Icelandic sentence.

Some linguists believe it is a distinct possibility that Icelandic will lose out to English.

If we lost the Icelandic language, there would be no Icelandic nation, says Kristinsson. And if there s no Icelandic nation, there is no Icelandic sovereignty.

Sverrir Norland, the writer who has written in English but now is back writing in Icelandic, believes the Icelandic identity comes with writing and speaking the language.

And for the past few years, the Icelandic Crisis Response Unit has seconded a gender expert to UNIFEM in Kosovo.

Others think immigrants may be the saviors of the language. I m looking very much forward to the time when immigrants start to write literature in their version of Icelandic creating new words, says novelist, Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir.

Probably in this century we will adopt English as our language. I think it s unavoidable. This is not an outlier view.

I think that people, especially older people, are very skeptical of the use of the English, says Larissa Kyzer, an American who lives in Reykjavik and studies Icelandic.

The case demonstrated that the Icelandic authorities took discrimination very seriously and were determined to punish anyone found guilty in that regard.

The list had also been sent to Icelandic embassies in the United States of America, Norway, Denmark, the United Kingdom and France, so that the individuals concerned could be informed of the decision of the Icelandic authorities and assistance could be provided to them.

Special institutions had been established to improve relations between Icelanders and foreign nationals who intended to settle in Iceland and to help the latter become more familiar with Icelandic society and culture.

Thus, the Ministry of Justice had forwarded to Icelandair a list of Falun Gong members who had booked flights to Iceland but could be expected to be denied entry into the country.

It s especially poignant for Icelanders. Consider this survey devised by Zuzana Stankovitsova, a Slovak who has lived in Reykjavik for the past few years, studying the Icelandic language.

In talks with Falun Gong members who had arrived in Iceland the week before the visit, Icelandic authorities had learned that some members did not intend to comply with police instructions to stay in defined protest areas.

As the Icelandic police force was small and the participation of hundreds of foreigners in the planned protest could pose a risk to public safety, the Government had taken measures in accordance with their obligation under international law to ensure the security of foreign heads of State.

If I m telling the story in Icelandic I m thinking about Icelandic readers, and I m assuming they share a similar experience and knowledge about the stuff I m talking about, says Norland. But if I m writing in English about Icelandic people, I would be explaining all kinds of different things so it would turn out very differently.

Ms. Árnadóttir (Iceland), referring to question 13, said that while the Icelandic authorities had decided to limit the number of individuals who could enter the country to participate in a planned protest during the visit of the President of the People's Republic of China, the demonstration had been neither prevented nor prohibited.