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Faroese

Føroyskt

Faroese is an Indo-European language spoken in Faroe Islands and Denmark, by about 69.2 thousand people. Glottolog rates it threatened.

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Faroese · 62.1°N 6.9°W

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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Written down

Øll menniskju eru fødd fræls og jøvn til virðingar og mannarættindi. Tey hava skil og samvitsku og eiga at fara hvørt um annað í bróðuranda.

Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).

Words in Faroese

MeaningWordRomanization
mothermóðir
fatherfaðir
childbarn
manmaður
womankona
namenavn
friendvinur
eyeeyga
earoyra
nosenøs
toothtonn
tonguetunga
handhond
hearthjarta
headhøvd
bloodblóð
bonebein
skinhúð
kneeknæ
breastbróst
liverlivur
watervatn
fireeldur
sunsól
moonmáni
starstjørna
skyhimin
rainregn
snowkavi
windvindur

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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.

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