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Faroese (/ ˌ f ɛər oʊ ˈ iː z, ˌ f ær-/ FAIR-oh-EEZ, FARR-; endonym: føroyskt mál [ˈføːɹɪst ˈmɔaːl]) is a North Germanic language spoken as a first language by about 69,000 Faroe Islanders, of which 21,000 reside mainly in Denmark and elsewhere.
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Faroese is a North Germanic language spoken mainly in the Faroe Islands (Føroyar) In 2007 there were about 66,000 speakers of Faroese: 45,000 in the Faroe Islands, and 21,000 elsewhere, mainly in Denmark. Faroese is closely related to Icelandic, and the dialects of western Norway.
Faroese is a Nordic language, which derives from the language of the Norsemen who settled the Faroe Islands in the viking age. Norse settlers arrived in the middle of the 9th century, bringing their West Norse language, which was spoken in Scandinavia and by the Norse people in the British Isles.
Faroese is a North Germanic language spoken as a first language by about 69,000 Faroe Islanders, of which 21,000 reside mainly in Denmark and elsewhere.
Initially described by the Danish language scholar Rasmus Rask —who wrote the first Faroese grammar (1811)—as a dialect of Icelandic, Faroese is actually an independent language, intermediate between West Norwegian and Icelandic and containing many Danish loanwords.
