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Iceland

The vast majority of Iceland's 292,000 population speak Icelandic. The language is closely related to Faroese (spoken on the nearby Faroe Islands) and the other Scandinavian languages.
There are no significant minority languages, although Danish and English are widely spoken and understood.

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