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· June, 2015
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Stories about Iceland from June, 2015

Will Icelanders One Day Ditch Their Language for English?

7 June 2015

Icelandic identity is, according to a popular poem, land, nation and tongue. Remove one, and the others collapse. So, will the Icelandic nation survive if the Icelandic language dies out?

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