The Icelandic keyboard layout is a national functional keyboard layout described in ''ÍST 125'', used to write the

Icelandic language Icelandic ( ; , ) is a North Germanic languages, North Germanic language from the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family spoken by about 314,000 people, the vast majority of whom live in Iceland, where it is the national languag ...

on computers and typewriters. It is

QWERTY QWERTY ( ) is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets. The name comes from the order of the first six Computer keyboard keys#Types, keys on the top letter row of the keyboard: . The QWERTY design is based on a layout included in the Sh ...

-based and features some influences from the continental Nordic layouts. It supports the language's many special letters, some of which it shares with the other Nordic languages: * Þ/þ, Ð/ð, Æ/æ and Ö/ö (Æ/æ also occurs in Norwegian, Danish and Faroese, Ð/ð in Faroese, and Ö/ö in Swedish, Finnish and Estonian.) These are all entered by pressing dedicated keys . * Á/á, É/é, Ý/ý, Ú/ú, Í/í, and Ó/ó are entered by first pressing

dead key A dead key is a special kind of modifier key on a mechanical typewriter, or computer keyboard, that is typically used to attach a specific diacritic to a base letter (alphabet), letter. The dead key does not generate a (complete) grapheme, charact ...

located to the right of Æ and then the corresponding key.

Non-Icelandic letters

The letters Å/å, Ä/ä, Ÿ/ÿ, Ü/ü, Ï/ï, and Ë/ë can be produced with the Icelandic keyboard by first pressing the or (for ¨)

located below the key, and then the corresponding letter (i.e. followed by yields ''å''). These letters are not used natively in Icelandic, but may have been implemented for ease of communication in other Nordic languages.

References

{{Keyboard layouts Latin-script keyboard layouts