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Icelandic alphabet and characters

The Icelandic alphabet should display only the following characters. If your document is not showing correctly, then first check that the encoding for that program and font supports Germanic languages.

Lower-case characters:

Icelandic characters (lower case)

Upper-case characters

Icelandic grammar rules

Nouns

Icelandic is an inflected language with many analytical forms. There are three grammatical genders: masculine, feminine or neuter. There are four cases: nominative, accusative, dative and genitive.

Verbs

Icelandic formatting rules

Date formats

First day of the week	Sunday
Working days	Monday to Friday
Short date format	d.M.yyyy, as well as d/M yyyy
	e.g. 24.3.2016 or 24/3 2016
Long date format	d. MMMM yyyy
	e.g. 24. mars 2016

Numbers and measurements

Decimal separator	, (comma)
	e.g. 11,50
Thousand separator	. (period)
	e.g. 2.000, not 2000
Five and more digit numbers format	split into groups of three from the right using period
	e.g. 20.000.000,00, not 20,000,000.00
Measurement units	non-breaking space
	e.g. 1 cm, not 1cm 39 ˚C, not 39˚C Exception: 10%, not 10 %
Icelandic currency name	króna
Currency symbol	kr.
Currency symbol position	can be located before and after the number, preceded by a space
	e.g. kr. 100 or 100 kr.

Icelandic capitalisation usage

Should be capitalised

People’s and product names.
Geographical names (of countries, counties/states, cities etc.).
Headings/titles: only the first word is capitalised unless a proper noun is featured.
The basic practise is to follow English capitalisation for bulleted items and sentences after a colon.

Should NOT be capitalised

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