Languages

Translating English into Icelandic

Set source_lang to EN and target_lang to IS; the response comes back in Icelandic. Below: what is particular about this pair.

Start with free credit Icelandic to English

  • Formality Not applicable
  • Script Latin
  • Extra volume €8.00 per million characters and up

EN → IS

English

Every screen should read as if it had been written for you.

Icelandic

Sérhver skjár ætti að lesast eins og hann hefði verið skrifaður fyrir þig.

Sample produced by the Language API Engine and cached — nobody edited it by hand.

English

English is the shortest of the supported languages in almost every measurement, which is why interfaces designed in English tend to break when translated into anything else.

Written in Latin · West Germanic family

British and American spelling, date order and vocabulary differ enough to matter; choose EN-GB or EN-US explicitly instead of bare EN.

Icelandic

Icelandic preserves four cases and three genders lost elsewhere in Scandinavia and coins native words rather than borrowing, so technical vocabulary is genuinely Icelandic.

Written in Latin · North Germanic family

The letters þ and ð are ordinary letters, not decorations; systems that strip non-ASCII destroy the text.

Formality for this pair

Icelandic does not distinguish formal from informal address, so the formality parameter is accepted but has no effect.

The formality parameter, explained

Copy-ready request

curl -X POST https://api.langapi.xyz/v1/translate \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer la_live_xxxxxxxx" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
        "text": ["…"],
        "source_lang": "EN",
        "target_lang": "IS"
      }'

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