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Faroese
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Faroese  is a north Germanic language spoken mainly in Denmark. It is one of five languages descended from Old West Norse spoken in the Middle Ages, the others are :
•	Norwegian
•	Icelandic
•	Norn
•	Greenlandic norse

== comparitive studies ==

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== translators ==

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== grammar ==
{{Main|Faroese grammar}}
Faroese grammar is related and very similar to that of modern [[Icelandic grammar|Icelandic]] and [[Old Norse]]. Faroese is an [[inflected language]] with three [[grammatical gender]]s and four [[grammatical case|cases]]: [[nominative case|nominative]], [[accusative case|accusative]], [[dative case|dative]] and [[genitive case|genitive]].

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+Faroese Words and Phrases in comparison to other Germanic languages
! Faroese !! Icelandic !! Norwegian (nynorsk) !! Norwegian (bokmål) !! English !! Frisian !! Danish !! Swedish !! German !! Dutch
|-
| Vælkomin || Velkomin || Velkomen || Velkommen  || Welcome || Wolkom || Velkommen || Välkommen || Willkommen || Welkom
|-
| Farvæl || Far vel; Farðu heill || Farvel || Farvel  || Farewell || Farwol || Farvel || Farväl || Lebewohl || Vaarwel
|-
| Hvussu eitur tú? || Hvað heitir þú? || Kva heiter du? || Hva heter du? || What is your name? || Wat is dyn namme? || Hvad hedder du? || Vad heter du? || Wie heißt Du? || Hoe heet je?
|-
| Hvussu gongur? || Hvernig gengur? || Korleis gjeng / går det? || Hvordan går det? || How is it going? (How goes it?) || Hoe giet it? || Hvordan går det? || Hur går det? || Wie geht es? || Hoe gaat het?
|-
| Hvussu gamal (m) / gomul (f) ert tú? || Hversu gamall (m) / gömul (f) ert þú? || Kor gamal er du? || Hvor gammel er du? || How old are you? || Hoe âld bisto? || Hvor gammel er du? || Hur gammal är du? || Wie alt bist Du? || Hoe oud ben je?
|-
| Reytt / reyður / reyð || Rautt / rauður / rauð || Raud(t) || Rød(t) || Red || Read || Rød(t) || Rött / Röd || Rot || Rood / Rode
|-
| Blátt/bláur/blá || Blátt/blár/blá || Blå(tt) || Blå(tt) || Blue || Blau(e) || Blå(t)  || Blå(tt) || Blau || Blauw(e)
|-
| Hvítt / hvítur / hvít || Hvítt / hvítur / hvít || Kvit(t) || Hvit(t) || White || Wyt || Hvid(t) || Vit(t) || Weiß || Wit(te)
|}

== See also ==
*[[Faroese language conflict]]
*[[Gøtudanskt accent]]
*[[Old Norwegian]]
== Further reading ==

===To learn Faroese as a language===

*Adams, Jonathan & Hjalmar P. Petersen. ''Faroese: A Language Course for beginners'' Grammar & Textbook. Tórshavn, 2009: Stiðin (704 p.) {{ISBN|978-99918-42-54-7}}
*W. B. Lockwood: ''An Introduction to Modern Faroese.'' Tórshavn, 1977. (no ISBN, 244 pages, 4th printing 2002)
*Michael Barnes: ''Faroese Language Studies'' Studia Nordica 5, Supplementum 30. Tórshavn, 2002. (239 pages) {{ISBN|99918-41-30-X}}
*Höskuldur Thráinsson (Þráinsson), Hjalmar P. Petersen, Jógvan í Lon Jacobsen, Zakaris Svabo Hansen: ''Faroese. An Overview and Reference Grammar''. Tórshavn, 2004. (500 pages) {{ISBN|99918-41-85-7}}
*Richard Kölbl: ''Färöisch Wort für Wort''. Bielefeld 2004 (in German)

===Dictionaries===

*Johan Hendrik W. Poulsen: ''Føroysk orðabók''. Tórshavn, 1998. (1483 pages) {{ISBN|99918-41-52-0}} (in Faroese)
*Annfinnur í Skála / Jonhard Mikkelsen: ''Føroyskt / enskt – enskt / føroyskt'', Vestmanna: Sprotin 2008. (Faroese–English / English–Faroese dictionary, 2 volumes)
*Annfinnur í Skála: ''Donsk-føroysk orðabók''. Tórshavn 1998. (1369 pages) {{ISBN|99918-42-22-5}} (Danish–Faroese dictionary)
*M.A. Jacobsen, Chr. Matras: ''Føroysk–donsk orðabók.'' Tórshavn, 1961. (no ISBN, 521 pages, Faroese–Danish dictionary)
*Hjalmar Petersen, Marius Staksberg: ''Donsk–Føroysk orðabók''. Tórshavn, 1995. (879 p.) {{ISBN|99918-41-51-2}} (Danish–Faroese dictionary)
*Eigil Lehmann: ''Føroysk–norsk orðabók''. Tórshavn, 1987 (no ISBN, 388 p.) (Faroese–Norwegian dictionary)
*Jón Hilmar Magnússon: ''Íslensk-færeysk orðabók''. Reykjavík, 2005. (877 p.) {{ISBN|9979-66-179-8}} (Icelandic–Faroese dictionary)
*Gianfranco Contri: ''Dizionario faroese-italiano = Føroysk-italsk orðabók''. Tórshavn, 2004. (627 p.) {{ISBN|99918-41-58-X}} (Faroese–Italian dictionary)

===Faroese Literature and Research===

*V.U. Hammershaimb: ''Færøsk Anthologi.'' Copenhagen 1891 (no ISBN, 2 volumes, 4th printing, Tórshavn 1991) (editorial comments in Danish)
*Tórður Jóansson: ''English loanwords in Faroese''. Tórshavn, 1997. (243 pages) {{ISBN|99918-49-14-9}}
*Petersen, Hjalmar P. 2009. ''Gender Assignment in Modern Faroese. Hamborg. Kovac''
*Petersen, Hjalmar P. 2010. ''The Dynamics of Faroese-Danish Language Contact. Heidelberg. Winter''
*Faroese/German anthology "From Djurhuus to Poulsen – Faroese Poetry during 100 Years", academic advice: [[Turið Sigurðardóttir]], linear translation: Inga Meincke (2007), ed. by [[Paul Alfred Kleinert]]

===Other===

* {{citation
|last=Barnes
|first=Michael P.
|last2=Weyhe
|first2=Eivind
|editor-last=van der Auwera
|editor-first=Johan
|editor-last2=König
|editor-first2=Ekkehard
|year=2013
|orig-year=First published 1994
|title=The Germanic Languages
|chapter=7 Faroese
|publisher=Routledge
|pages=190–218
|isbn=0-415-05768-X
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DVBdAgAAQBAJ
}}
==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}
== External links ==
{{InterWiki|code=fo}}
{{wiktionarycat}}
{{WikisourceWiki|code=fo}}
{{Wikivoyage|Faroese phrasebook|Faroese|a phrasebook}}
* [http://www.obg.fo/fob/fob.php Føroysk orðabók] (the Faroese–Faroese dictionary of 1998 online)
* [http://www.sprotin.fo/ Sprotin] (complete English-Faroese/Faroese-English and Danish–Faroese online dictionary)
* [http://giellatekno.uit.no/cgi/index.fao.eng.html Faroese online syntactic analyser and morphological analyser/generator]
* [http://www.fmn.fo/malnevndin/about.htm FMN.fo – Faroese Language Committee] (Official site with further links)
*[http://www.languagesandpeoples.com/Eng/Direct/Germanic/SglLgFaroeseStd.htm 'Hover & Hear' Faroese pronunciations], and compare with equivalents in English and other Germanic languages.
* [http://goscandinavia.about.com/od/languagehelp/qt/faroesephrases.htm Useful Faroese Words & Phrases for Travelers]
* [http://www.languagesandnumbers.com/how-to-count-in-faroese/en/fao/ How to count in Faroese]

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