Faroese language

Faroese
føroyskt mál
Pronunciation	[ˈføːɹɪst mɔaːl]
Native to	Faroe Islands, Denmark, Greenland
Ethnicity	Faroe Islanders
Native speakers	66,000 (2007)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Germanic North Germanic West Scandinavian Insular Scandinavian Faroese
Early forms	Old Norse Old West Norse Old Norwegian[2] Old Faroese
Writing system	Latin (Faroese orthography) Faroese Braille
Official status
Official language in	Faroe Islands
Recognised minority language in	Denmark
Regulated by	Faroese Language Board Føroyska málnevndin
Language codes
ISO 639-1	fo
ISO 639-2	fao
ISO 639-3	fao
Glottolog	faro1244
Linguasphere	52-AAA-ab
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Faroese is the Germanic language of the Faroe Islands spoken by about 70,000 people. The language came from Old Norse which was spoken in the Middle Ages. Faroese is the most similar to Icelandic. The alphabet has 29 letters that come from the Latin alphabet.

1. ↑ Faroese at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. ↑ Sandøy, H., Frå tre dialektar til tre språk. In: Gunnstein Akselberg og Edit Bugge (red.), Vestnordisk språkkontakt gjennom 1200 år. Tórshavn, Fróðskapur, 2011, pp. 19-38. [1]