The Role of the Danish Language in Iceland
Due to the long-standing relationship between Denmark and Iceland, the Danish language has played a significant role in Iceland for a long time. With urbanisation in the 19th century, a relatively high number of Danes settled in Reykjavík and Danish language and culture which was highly different fr...
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ftunivbernojs:oai:ojs.bop.unibe.ch:article/3335 2023-05-15T16:46:31+02:00 The Role of the Danish Language in Iceland Hauksdóttir, Auður 2016-11-07 text/html application/pdf https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/article/view/3335 https://doi.org/10.13092/lo.79.3335 deu ger Bern Open Publishing (BOP) https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/article/view/3335/5100 https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/article/view/3335/5101 https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/article/view/3335 doi:10.13092/lo.79.3335 Copyright (c) 2016 Auður Hauksdóttir Linguistik Online; Bd. 79 Nr. 5 (2016) Linguistik Online; Vol. 79 No. 5 (2016) 1615-3014 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Begutachteter Artikel 2016 ftunivbernojs https://doi.org/10.13092/lo.79.3335 2022-05-15T20:43:07Z Due to the long-standing relationship between Denmark and Iceland, the Danish language has played a significant role in Iceland for a long time. With urbanisation in the 19th century, a relatively high number of Danes settled in Reykjavík and Danish language and culture which was highly different from the traditional Icelandic rural culture became predominant in the city. With a growing national consciousness, the use of Danish and Danish loanwords came to be regarded as a threat to the mother tongue. However, greater independence gradually led to more balanced attitudes. Knowledge of Danish was a key to education, as many Icelanders sought education of different types in Denmark. Danish was taught as a foreign language in Icelandic schools. Icelandic was the language of instruction in all subjects, although some of the textbooks were in Danish. The relationship with Denmark and the other Scandinavian countries remains close. Danish is still a compulsory subject in Icelandic primary and grammar schools and, nowadays, provides Icelanders with a key to understanding and using the rest of the Scandinavian languages. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Reykjavík Reykjavík BOP Serials (Bern Open Publishing, University of Bern) Reykjavík Linguistik Online 79 5 |
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Due to the long-standing relationship between Denmark and Iceland, the Danish language has played a significant role in Iceland for a long time. With urbanisation in the 19th century, a relatively high number of Danes settled in Reykjavík and Danish language and culture which was highly different from the traditional Icelandic rural culture became predominant in the city. With a growing national consciousness, the use of Danish and Danish loanwords came to be regarded as a threat to the mother tongue. However, greater independence gradually led to more balanced attitudes. Knowledge of Danish was a key to education, as many Icelanders sought education of different types in Denmark. Danish was taught as a foreign language in Icelandic schools. Icelandic was the language of instruction in all subjects, although some of the textbooks were in Danish. The relationship with Denmark and the other Scandinavian countries remains close. Danish is still a compulsory subject in Icelandic primary and grammar schools and, nowadays, provides Icelanders with a key to understanding and using the rest of the Scandinavian languages. |
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The Role of the Danish Language in Iceland |
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The Role of the Danish Language in Iceland |
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The Role of the Danish Language in Iceland |
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The Role of the Danish Language in Iceland |
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The Role of the Danish Language in Iceland |
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role of the danish language in iceland |
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Iceland Reykjavík Reykjavík |
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https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/article/view/3335/5100 https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/article/view/3335/5101 https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/article/view/3335 doi:10.13092/lo.79.3335 |
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Copyright (c) 2016 Auður Hauksdóttir |
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