Do you know any funny Icelandic words? 🗣️🇮🇸😂 Today is Icelandic Language Day, where we celebrate the beauty and preservation of the Icelandic language 💬💙🤍❤️ It's celebrated each year on the 16th of November, the birthday of Icelandic poet Jónas Hallgrímsson, who was a significant contributor to the preservation and development of the Icelandic language ✍️📆🎂 On this day, the Jónas Hallgrímsson Award is awarded to someone who has “in a unique way contributed to the Icelandic language.” ✨�

Is Icelandic as a language endangered? 🇮🇸 Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson is known both as a fervent defender of the language who advocates for its protection, as well as someone ready, willing, and able to shut down conversations about the language’s survival when they turn xenophobic. Although he is now retired from his post of teaching Icelandic at the University of Iceland, he is more active than ever in public discourse around the Icelandic language. Subscribers can now read the entire interview wit

Modern Icelandic pronunciation is a common standard when studying Old Norse, as it provides an unequivocal reference: reconstructed pronunciations are very interesting but problematic, as you could reconstruct a different pronunciation for every half or even quarter of a century! Also, there were dialects and variations in the past as much as today, which variants are you gonna pick? All these questions are easily avoided with the modern Icelandic pronunciation: a reconstructed one is only ultim