Faroese Froyskt ml
Spoken at	Denmark
Region	Faroe Islands
Number of speakers	80 000
Typology	SVO + VSO accentual
Classification by family
- Indo-European - Germanic languages - Scandinavian languages - West Scandinavian languages - Faroese
Official status
Official language of	Faroe Islands
Governed by	Froyska mlnevndin
Language codes
ISO 639-1	fo
ISO 639-2	fao
ISO 639-3	fao
IETF	fo
Sample
Article I of the Declaration of Human Rights ( see text in French ) 1. Grein Oll menniskju Fodd frls eru til og jvn viringar og mannarttindi. Tey hava skil og og eiga at fara samvitsku hvrt um bruranda Annadif.
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Faroese in Faroese) is a language belonging to the group of Germanic languages of the family of Indo-European languages. It is spoken in the Faroe Islands with a little less than 80,000 speakers.

The alphabet has 29 Faroese letters : A, A, B, D, D, E, F, G, H, I, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, O, P, R, S, T, U, U, V, Y, , ,. C, Q, W, X and Z are not included.

Summary 1 Pronunciation Dialect 2 3 History of Language 4 Internal Links

/ / Pronunciation

Due to a very different pronunciation, speakers Icelandic and Faroese can hardly understand.

Dialect

Faroese is fragmented into six dialects, from the north-east to south:

• Bordoy
• Esturoy
• Vgar
• Trshavn
• Sandoy
• Suduroy

However, there are usually "fjord dialects of the North" and "dialects of southern fjords. These varieties are all easily intelligible to each other. The largest concentration of population around Trshavn , had the effect of ensuring a preponderance of the dialect of the capital of the archipelago, compared to other varieties, and over 80% of the population can speak it dialect. The concentration of schools and the media in this region has also contributed to the consolidation of Trshavn dialect that became the standard for correct pronunciation of the Faroese.

History of the Language

The Faroe Islands, possession Norwegian and Danish , have no written tradition that two other runic inscriptions and a letter dated ^thirteenth or ^fourteenth century.

In the nineteenth ^century , we will try to write down the oral tradition, hence the establishment of a process of creating a Faroese written language which is not unlike the process of recreating a language Written purely Norwegian (the landsml ).

In the early 1840s, the Danish linguist Niels Matthias Petersen publishes an article entitled "About the Faroese language," in which he explains that Faroese written language could be built from the Old Norse language and oral.

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