Linguistic experts warn Icelandic language is at risk of dying out because smartphones don’t speak

‘Linguistic experts have warned that the Icelandic language is at risk of dying out in the modern society.  The widespread use of English in the country, both for tourism and for voice-controlled electronic devices, has slowly reduced the numbers of people speaking Icelandic to less than 400,000.
Asgeir Jonsson, an economics professor at the University of Iceland, said without a unique language the country could experience a brain drain.

“A British town with a population the size of Iceland has far fewer scientists and artists, for example. They’ve simply moved to the metropolis,” he said.’
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