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Faroese
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
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- Main article: Faroese grammar
Faroese grammar is related and very similar to that of modern Icelandic and Old Norse. Faroese is an inflected language with three grammatical genders and four cases: nominative, accusative, dative and genitive.
| 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
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.) Template:ISBN
- 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) Template:ISBN
- Höskuldur Thráinsson (Þráinsson), Hjalmar P. Petersen, Jógvan í Lon Jacobsen, Zakaris Svabo Hansen: Faroese. An Overview and Reference Grammar. Tórshavn, 2004. (500 pages) Template:ISBN
- Richard Kölbl: Färöisch Wort für Wort. Bielefeld 2004 (in German)
Dictionaries
- Johan Hendrik W. Poulsen: Føroysk orðabók. Tórshavn, 1998. (1483 pages) Template:ISBN (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) Template:ISBN (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.) Template:ISBN (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.) Template:ISBN (Icelandic–Faroese dictionary)
- Gianfranco Contri: Dizionario faroese-italiano = Føroysk-italsk orðabók. Tórshavn, 2004. (627 p.) Template:ISBN (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) Template:ISBN
- 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
References
External links
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- Føroysk orðabók (the Faroese–Faroese dictionary of 1998 online)
- Sprotin (complete English-Faroese/Faroese-English and Danish–Faroese online dictionary)
- Faroese online syntactic analyser and morphological analyser/generator
- FMN.fo – Faroese Language Committee (Official site with further links)
- 'Hover & Hear' Faroese pronunciations, and compare with equivalents in English and other Germanic languages.
- Useful Faroese Words & Phrases for Travelers
- How to count in Faroese
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