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Association for Icelandic-speaking Youth

In April 2008, four students in Iceland paid a visit to the Education Ministry in Reykjavik in order to inform the government that they had founded an Association for Icelandic-speaking Youth, reported by Iceland Review Online. The students in question wish to support the Icelandic language for fear that too much ‘slang’ has permeated Icelandic in modern times. The Association claims that the English language is diluting Icelandic and they are anxious because people are borrowing English and speaking mixed language. An area of particular concern is pre-school children who are adopting ‘slang’ heard from older children and parents. The Association members would like to see students and teachers around Iceland ‘fight’ the use of English words. Iceland is certainly a good example of the often uphill struggle that many minority languages around the world have – even in independent states – in which they exist alongside world languages such as English, French and others. The lesson from this is that Scots is not alone and that its puzzling problems are not unique either. For more regarding these students please follow this link: http://icelandreview.com/icela