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Language code: ice

Technical information about ISO 639 language code ice

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The table below provides technical details for the Icelandic language, designated by the ice code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

ice (Bibliographic)

Name

Official

Icelandic

Native

Íslenska

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Western IcelandicNorthern IcelandicEastern IcelandicSouthern Icelandic
Related languages
FaroeseNorwegian (Nynorsk)DanishSwedish
Key facts
Modern Icelanders can read medieval sagas with relatively little effortThe alphabet contains the special letters þ and ð representing dental fricativesIcelandic keeps a complex inflectional system with four cases and three grammatical gendersNew technical terms are typically coined from native roots instead of borrowed wordsMost surnames are patronymic, ending in -son or -dóttir rather than inherited family names
Sample phrase

Halló, hvernig hefurðu það?

Character encodings

ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859-10, ISO 8859-15, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Icelandic language, identified by the code ice, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

The ISO 639-2 standard offers two codes for the Icelandic language: ice for bibliographic purposes and isl for terminology uses.

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