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Welcome to the Wikilang introduction page for the Faroese language, or as we call it, føroyskt!

An Introduction to the Language

History

Faroese is one of the Western Scandinavian languages, a family shared with Icelandic and Norwegian. These languages developed from a western dialect of Old Norse, and as such are related to the continental Scandinavian languages, however do not have as much mutual intelligibility with them as they do with each other.

Family

Indo-European

• Germanic
  • North Germanic
    • West Scandinavian
      • Faroese

Spoken in

Faroese is the official language of the Faroe Islands, where it has about 48,000 speakers. It’s also spoken in Denmark by 25,000 people.