Faroese leid

FaroeseWhile the spelling Faeroese is an aa seen, Faroese is the spellin uised in grammars, textbuiks, scientific airticles an dictionaries atween Faroese an Inglis. (føroyskt, pronoonced  or ), 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.Language and nationalism in Europe, p. 106, Stephen Barbour, Cathie Carmichael, Oxford University Press, 2000

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