A man from Grindavik in southwest Iceland has received official permission to use Grindvik as his middle name. His new name is therefore Matthias Grindvik Gudmundsson. Read the full story
Posted on 14 July 2010.
A man from Grindavik in southwest Iceland has received official permission to use Grindvik as his middle name. His new name is therefore Matthias Grindvik Gudmundsson. Read the full story
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Posted on 21 March 2010.
The Swedish football club Brommapojkarna (BP) has introduced a contentious language policy that demands all players at the club converse only in Swedish, or find they are ineligible for team selection. Read the full story
Posted on 16 February 2010.
Registration for Icelandic language exams for citizenship applicants begins on 1st March. Read the full story
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Posted on 12 January 2010.
The United Nations culture agency has declared that two variations of the Greenlandic language are facing potential extinction. Read the full story
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Posted on 06 December 2009.
A school in Odense on the Danish island of Funen has prohibited students from speaking in their own languages during break time. Read the full story
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Posted on 09 November 2009.
The commonly held belief that Danish dialects are dying out has been refuted by new university research. Read the full story
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Posted on 02 November 2009.
The popularity of E-reading is expected to increase following Amazon’s decision to launch their best-selling model internationally. The Kindle program is an electronic paper display which requires no computer, synching or cables and offers hundreds of thousands of best-selling titles which can be downloaded in less than a minute. Read the full story
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Posted on 21 May 2009.
Tragedy struck a young Norwegian university student who was staying in Copenhagen when he was severely injured in a bar fight and was misunderstood at a local hospital. The resulting communication error ended up costing the 25 year-old man his life. Read the full story
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Posted on 22 February 2009.
Tommy Maro, the Culture Minister of Greenland, has proposed a bill to parliament outlining a new policy for the use of language in Greenland. The goal of the new legislation is to facilitate broader language skills in the country, according to the newspaper Sermitsiaq. Read the full story
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Posted on 08 February 2009.
Since 2000, the Swedish government has given special national minority status to the languages of its ethnic minority groups. These include Finnish, Torne Valley Finnish (meankieli), Yiddish, Romani, and all Sami dialects. The Swedish government has now promised it will do more to promote and preserve these unique languages before they die out. Read the full story
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