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I’d be more worried about Irish (also the official language of a sovereign nation, though sharing that status with English, in which most business is transacted), not to mention Welsh (similar status, only its nation is effectively part of an entity named England And Wales, which is part of the UK, and it’s possible to live in Cardiff without ever feeling one needs to know any Welsh, to say nothing of the picturesque villages where second homes owned by well-off English people are crowding out locals).

Icelandic, meanwhile, is the sole official language of Iceland. Most people there speak reasonable English, though don’t do so among themselves, and if you rent anything beyond an Airbnb or fill in a tax return, you’ll be doing do in Icelandic. Also, Iceland has a healthy literary culture, with a thriving publishing industry and a tradition of giving books (almost certainly in Icelandic) for Christmas, to the point where the spurt of newly published books near the end of the year is called the jolabokhlaup (sp?), or “Christmas book flood”.

I’d say that Icelandic is perhaps marginally less secure than, say, Swedish, though fears of its replacement by English belong alongside 20th-century panics that TV/radio/rock’n’roll will give children in (Britain/Australia/New Zealand/wherever) American accents.