Faroese language
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Name (Hebrew)
שפת פארו
Name (Latin)
Faroese language
Name (Arabic)
اللغة الفاروية
Other forms of name
Faeroese language
nne Faroese dialect
See Also From tracing topical name
Scandinavian languages
See Also From tracing place name
Faroe Islands
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q25258
Library of congress:
sh 85047334
Sources of Information
- Britannica Micro.(Faeroese, Faroese)
- Wessen, E. Nordischen sprachen, 1968:p. 1.
- Ethnologue:p. 366.
- Voegelin lang.:p. 141.
Wikipedia description:
Faroese ( FAIR-oh-EEZ, FARR-; endonym: føroyskt [ˈføːɹɪst]) is a North Germanic language spoken as a first language by about 69,000 Faroe Islanders, of whom 21,000 reside mainly in Denmark and elsewhere. It is one of five languages descended from Old West Norse spoken in the Middle Ages; the others include Norwegian, Icelandic, and the extinct Norn and Greenlandic Norse. Faroese and Icelandic, its closest extant relative, are not easily mutually intelligible in speech, but the written languages resemble each other quite closely, largely owing to Faroese's etymological orthography.
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