• IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Faroese orthography is the method employed to write the Faroese language, using a 29-letter Latin alphabet...
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  • government, and the law was Danish, but Faroese was the language of ordinary people. The orthography of Faroese had been set by Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb...
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  • languages resemble each other quite closely, largely owing to Faroese's etymological orthography. Around 900 AD, the language spoken in the Faroes was Old...
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    the Løgting and an official Faroese orthography, the Faroese language conflict saw Danish being gradually displaced by Faroese as the language of the church...
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    Jakob Jakobsen (category 19th-century Faroese people)
    Faroese language and its literature, most notably his conflict with Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb over the development of the Faroese orthography,...
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  • Faroese, Chinese, Tibetan, Mongolian, Thai, Khmer, Burmese, Lao (until 1975; now only used overseas), French, or Franco-Provençal). Orthographies such...
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  • The Bible translations into Faroese have been relatively new, partly because the modern orthography began only in the latter half of the 19th century...
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    Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb (category Pages with Faroese IPA)
    March 25, 1819 – April 8, 1909) was a Faroese Lutheran minister who established the modern orthography of Faroese – the language of the Faroe Islands –...
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  • Silent letter (category English orthography)
    the silent letter ge in Faroese is the same as for the letter edd; it is written for historical reasons as Faroese orthography was based on normalised...
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    Y
    between /y/ and /i/ has been lost in Icelandic and Faroese, making the distinction purely orthographic and historical. A similar merger of /y/ into /i/...
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