Iceland, being a tiny island nation with only some 300k speakers of Icelandic, goes to rather extreme lengths to "preserve" the language from foreign influences

Iceland, being a tiny island nation with only some 300k speakers of Icelandic, goes to rather extreme lengths to "preserve" the language from foreign influences, including names. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_purism_in_Icelandic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_purism_in_Icelandic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Naming_Committee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Naming_Committee