Faroese leid
North Germanic leid
Faroese[1] (føroyskt, pronoonced [ˈføːɹɪst] or [ˈføːɹɪʂt]), is an Insular Nordic leid spoken bi aboot 50,000 fowk in the Faroe Islands an aboot 25,000 Faroese in Denmark an elsewhaur. It is ane o fower leids descendit frae the Auld Wast Norse leid spaken in the Middle Ages, the ithers being Icelandic, Norse an the extinct Norn, which is thoucht to hae been mutually intelligible wi Faroese. Faroese an Icelandic, its closest extant relative, are nae mutually intelligible in speech, but the scrievit leids resemble ilk ither a muckle.[2]
Faroese | |
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føroyskt | |
Pronunciation | IPA: [ˈføːɹɪst]] |
Native tae | Faroe Islands, Denmark |
Native speakers | aroond 70,000-75,000 |
Indo-European
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Laitin (Faroese alphabet) | |
Offeecial status | |
Offeecial leid in | Faroe Islands |
Recognised minority leid in | |
Regulatit bi | Faroese Leid Board Føroyska málnevndin |
Leid codes | |
ISO 639-1 | fo |
ISO 639-2 | fao |
ISO 639-3 | fao |
Linguasphere | 52-AAA-ab |
Faroese keyboard layoot |
References eedit
- ↑ While the spelling Faeroese is an aa seen, Faroese is the spellin uised in grammars, textbuiks, scientific airticles an dictionaries atween Faroese an Inglis.
- ↑ Language and nationalism in Europe, p. 106, Stephen Barbour, Cathie Carmichael, Oxford University Press, 2000
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