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Language code: isl

Technical information about ISO 639 language code isl

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

Code

isl (Terminology)

Name

Official

Icelandic

Native

Íslenska

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Western IcelandicNorthern IcelandicSouthern IcelandicEastern Icelandic
Related languages
FaroeseNorwegian (Nynorsk)Old Norse
Key facts
Orthography retains the unique letters þ and ð alongside seven acute-accent vowelsModern Icelanders can still read 13th-century sagas with relative ease due to limited language changeNouns are inflected for three grammatical genders and four casesNew personal names must be approved by the Icelandic Naming Committee to fit phonological rulesPrimary word stress almost always falls on the first syllable.
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 isl, 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: isl for terminology purposes and ice for bibliographic uses.

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