German / Deutsch German is the official language of Germany and Austria, and is also spoken across Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and a small corner of France called Alsace. Standard German is spoken by around 90 million people across the globe and, if you count its regional varieties, that figure increases to 120 million.

Icelandic / Íslenska Icelandic is a North Germanic language spoken by approximately 330,000 people. It became the dominant language of Iceland after replacing Gaelic. While northern trade routes brought limited contact with German, English, Dutch, French and Basque, Iceland has historically been extremely linguistically isolated.