[simongray]

> However I at the same time I’m also deeply disappointed by the lack of support for Iceland’s closest neighbour’s language—Greenlandic—which is an indigenous language, the sole official language of an autonomous country.

I'm not sure "autonomous country" is an accurate description of what Greenland is. It is - for all intents and purposes - a devolved region of Denmark. It is still way too reliant on economic aid to be able to be independent and, honestly, probably couldn't exist as a developed nation without a patron (Denmark) or without selling its land/resources to a great power (USA, China). And the population is only 1/6 the size of Iceland's and is very dispersed on a massive arctic island, with most people living in tiny isolated villages by the coast.

With that in mind, you wouldn't expect great language support unless the Danish state steps in and spends some serious dough on it. I actually work on Danish language technology at the University of Copenhagen and let me tell you something... the Danish state hardly spends any money on Danish language resources either. We envy the kind of funding that researchers in countries like Iceland and Norway have access too.

[runarberg]

> the Danish state hardly spends any money on Danish language resources either.

I’m actually a little disappointed that there is not more collaboration between the language departments in Iceland and Greenland. Iceland does spend some money on foreign languages and there is much interest in general for foreign languages in Iceland. The former president Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is a huge language buff and advocates for foreign languages a lot. So much so that the house of foreign languages at the University is named after her (https://vigdis.hi.is/).

It is generally believed in Iceland that setting up Icelandic cultural institutions in Reykjavík played a big part in our independence. Institutions such as the University, libraries and the National Theater. There is also big interest for Greenlandic independence in Iceland. Therefor it would make sense for a rich country like Iceland to spend some money in progressing the status of Kalaallisut, both in Iceland (by shared cultural events), Greenland (by help funding cultural institutions) and internationally (by help funding online language efforts).

[runarberg]

I’m writing this as a separate comment since it is an aside (i.e. not about investments in progressing indigenous languages online).

I don’t think it is wrong to call Greenland a country. As mentioned elsewhere, the word country is not strictly defined. Sometimes it means strictly independent nations, but most of the time it doesn’t. E.g. here is CIA calling Greenland a country (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/greenland/).