Language/Faroese

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Facts about Faroese

• Language code (ISO 639-3): fao

• Autonyms (how to write "Faroese" in Faroese): Føroyskt

• Other names for "Faroese": Faeroese, Føroyskt

• The Faroese language is spoken in: Faroe Islands

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Faroeseis a North Germanic language spoken as a first language by about 72,000 Faroe Islanders, around 53,000 of whom reside on the Faroe Islands and 23,000 in other areas, mainly Denmark.

It is one of five languages descended from Old West Norse spoken in the Middle Ages, the others being Norwegian, Icelandic, and the extinct Norn and Greenlandic Norse.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroese_language

Dictionaries

• Sprotin: Faroese dictionary & Faroese-English, Danish, German, Spanish…

• Føroysk-ensk orðabók: Faroese-English dictionary, by George Young & Cynthia Clewer (1985)

• Orðaskyn, mín fyrsta orðabók : Faroese dictionary for children (1994)

• Heimur okkara alfrøði: Faroese encyclopedia for children (1992) A-L & M-A

• Heimsins lond: Faroese world atlas, by Simon Adams (1999)

• Føroysk flora: flora of the Faroe Islands, by Jóhannes Jóhansen (2000)

• Føroya jarðfrøði: geology of the Faroe Islands, by Jóannes Rasmussen (2005)

• The vocabulary of insular Scandinavian: lexical purism, neologisms and language contact in Icelandic and Faroese, by Edward Smith (2014)

• Source: https://www.lexilogos.com/english/faroese_dictionary.htm

Free Faroese Lessons

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Last Lessons

How to Use Have — How to Use Be — How to say Good Bye? — Health — Give your Opinion — Express Surprise — Geography — Future Tense — Fruits — Feelings and Emotions — Education — Drinks — Clothes — Negation — Plurals — Questions — Conditional Mood — Pronouns — Adjectives — Food — Count to 10 — Animals — Colors — Days of the Week — Faroe Islands Timeline — How to Say Hello and Greetings — Alphabet and Pronunciation