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	Faroese Nationalism and the Faroese language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The struggle to keep the Faroese language alive is part of Faroese identity and nationalism as it is predominantly through language and folk ballads that we sense an ongoing nationalism in the Faroe Islands.
		The Faroese language is a West-Norse language, which in grammatical terms is closest to the Icelandic language, whilst the dialects are closer, related to the Norwegian language.
		Føroyinga felagið (The Faroese fellowship) was founded in January 1889 with the purpose to: (1) Bring the Faroese language to honour and recognition; (2) unite the Faroese people and further their competence in all things to enable them to provide for themselves.
	www.visittorshavn.fo /nationalism.htm (1251 words)

	Faroese language, alphabet and pronunciation
		Faroese is a North Germanic language with around 47,000 speakers in the Faroe Islands (Føroyar).
		Faroese is closely related to Icelandic and the dialects of western Norway, though as a result of the isolation, the Faroese language has a distinctive character of its own.
		Faroese first appeared in writing during the 14th century mainly in the form of sagas and fables, which remain popular to this day.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/faroese.htm (296 words)

	The Faroese Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Faroese became an independent language with characteristics of its own, be it as regards sound, inflection or vocabulary.
		The efforts to restore "Faroese language to its former position", as it was stated after the Christmas meeting, were to cause bitter dispute, politically and culturally, before it was acknowledged officially in 1938 as the language of instruction on the Islands.
		The builder first and foremost of a Faroese church language was the dean Jàkup Dahl (18781944), whose translation of the New Testament was published in 1937 (the official church bible was available in a complete translation in 1961).
	www.mundofree.com /islasferoe/thefaroeselanguage.html (2201 words)

	Faroese language
		Faroese is a West Nordic or West Scandinavian language spoken by about 40,000 people in the Faroe Islands.
		It is one of two insular Scandinavian languages (the other is Icelandic), which have their origins in the Old Norse language spoken in Scandinavia in the Viking Age.
		Faroese tradition was mostly oral until a standard for written Faroese was established in 1846 by Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fa/Faroese_language.html (82 words)

	Faroese language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Faroese was a dialect of Old Norse, and appeared as a separate language only due to its insular, isolate position.
		There are plenty of dialects of the tongue on different islands, and no fixed literary form of it exists except the language of ancient sagas and fables written since the 14th century and popular even nowadays.
		The distinguishing feature of Faroese is its "preaspiration" when the sound [h] is placed not after the consonant, but before it.
	members.tripod.com /babaev/tree/faroese.html (238 words)

	Faroese language (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		As a result, Faroese, as well as Icelandic began to be influenced by Celtic, not only because of this fact, but also because of the fact, that native Norwegian settlers, often made a stop in the Irish Sea to take a wife, before settling in the Faroe Islands and Iceland.
		Between the 9th and the 15th century a Faroese language slowly evolved, yet it was still intelligeble with the languages within the realm of the Norwegian Viking Empire spanning from Norway to North America.
		Until the 15th century, Faroese had a similar orthography to Icelandic and Norwegian, but after the Reformation, the ruling Danes outlawed its use in schools, churches and official documents, which are the main places written languages survive in an essentially illiterate society.
	faroese-language.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (596 words)

	Transfers and Dependency: The Faroese Experience (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the debate among Faroese it has never been an argu-ment whether the Faroese are a people, and a self-perception as a minority is not even considered.
		THE FAROESE EXPERIENCE from the eighties tell a story of depravation within the fish-ing industry, the main indu-s-try in the Faroes, of the blind dependence on subsidies both among owners of plants and vessels, as well as the total dependence of local communities on their share of the subsidies allocated to the local industry.
		The Faroese experience from the nineties tells another story: that in spite of the grim pro-phecies of the fishing industry, the removal of subsidies has shown positive results within a few years.
	www.nordregio.se /north9902art.htm (3634 words)

	The Faroe Islands, Faroese History - A part of Randburg
		The Faroese bishopric was abolished and the properties of the church were taken over by the Crown.
		The Faroese parliamentary institution was gradually weakened and the power of the Danish officials reinforced, and the islands increasingly slipped into the bureaucratic system of the monarchy.
		The Faroese are also a "historical" nation conscious of the significance of the historical contexts that have created their modern society.
	www.randburg.com /fa/general/general_5.html (1936 words)

	Bryggen Art, Kolonialen - Paintings and Basalt by Jens Frederiksen
		Faroese art is indeed a recent phenomenon, as it is little more than a century old.
		Since the first great introduction to Faroese fine arts in Copenhagen in 1955, it is no exaggeration to say that the development of Faroese art can truely be characterized as a turbulent almost frenetic expansion and by a profound change of the pioneer basis which we have, admittedly, outlined much too sketchily above.
		On beholding Faroese pictorial art at this exhibition or elsewhere for that matter it is more than likely that the visitor senses a hard definable common denominator.
	www.bryggenart.com /en/art_faroese.php (2690 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Faroese (fÃ¸royskt [1]), often also spelled Faeroese, is a West Nordic or West Scandinavian language spoken by 48,000 people in the Faroe Islands and about 12,000 Faroese in Denmark.
		In 1937, Faroese replaced Danish as the official school language, 1938 as church language, and 1948 as national language by the Home Rule Act of the Faroes.
		Faroese avoids having a hiatus between two vowels by inserting a glide.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Faroese_language (2091 words)

	Faroese Tutorial
		The closest relative to Faroese is the now extinct Norn, spoken in the Orkneys until the 17th or 18th century and the Shetlands where it became extinct in the 2nd half of the 19th century.
		Faroese has many retained grammatical structures from the old Norse and Germanic languages, 3 gender, 2 numbers, 4 cases, strongly and weakly bent nouns, verbs and adjectives.
		This is due to the fact that from the time of the Reformation, school-, church- and administrative language of the Faroes (and Norway) was Danish, although Luther's meaning with the Reformation was that every man should hear the Lord's words in his own language.
	www.ielanguages.com /faroese.html (991 words)

	Altjóða Skrivstovan - The Faroese Educational System
		The Faroese educational system is a modern one, and in the early nineties was subjected to several changes.
		Below is a brief description of the Faroese educational system intended to provide you with an overview over what kind/type of educations and educational institutions we have.
		At the faculty of Faroese Language it is possible to take a BA in Faroese language and literature and a MA in Nordic, with an emphasise on Faroese language and literature.
	www.ask.fo /education (1226 words)

	Faroese introduction - UniLang Wiki
		Faroese is the smallest of the modern Nordic languages.
		Since 1938, Faroese is the language of education, and since 1939 the language of the church.
		Well, it is the oldest source about the Faroese history during the viking age, which ended in 1035, but it was written about 200 years later by monks in Iceland (therefore in Old Icelandic) and first compiled in the 19th century out of a stack of Icelandic sagas.
	home.unilang.org /wiki3/index.php?title=Faroese_introduction&... (819 words)

	Nationalbanken // Notes and Coins // Web document // The previous Faroese banknote series
		The motif on the face of the 5- and 10-krone banknotes is a ram, while Nólsoyar Páll and V.U. Hammershaimb are the main motif on respectively the 50- and 100-krone banknotes.
		The main motif on the 20-krone banknote is a Faroese shepherd, while the reverse shows a sheep with two lambs.
		On the 500-krone banknote, the main motif is a Faroese fisherman, and the motif on the reverse is a scene from a fishing trawler.
	www.nationalbanken.dk /DNUK/NotesAndCoins.nsf/side/The_previous_Faroese_banknotes_series_!OpenDocument (309 words)

	the goggles do nothing: Faroese Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Merkið, (cognate with English the mark) is the Faroese flag, designed in 1919 but not given official sanction until April 25th, 1940.
		Faroese ships couldn’t fly Danish flags for risk of being bombed by the RAF — as the rest of Denmark was under the control of the Germans.
		The Faroese national bird is the tjaldur (Haematopus ostralegus, Eurasian Oystercatcher).
	thegogglesdonothing.com /archives/2006/03/faroese_literature_1.shtml (359 words)

	Faroese Ballad related Links
		Although there is a similarly titled Faroese ballad called "Skrímsla", that is a story of an altogether diffrerent plot.
		The word "skrymsli (Faroese: skrímsli)" means a monster, and is used interchangeably with giants and trolls in the ballad.
		Ormurin langi is sung in Faroese (lyrics are taken from text by Jens Christian Djurhuus (1773 -1853)).
	pw1.netcom.com /~kyamazak/myth/faroese/faroese-link-e.htm (2270 words)

	Faroese Football (soccer) EURO 2004 Report from Germany 16 October 2002
		It was a wet and windy October evening in Hannover when the Faroese and German National football teams met in the group 5 qualification game for the 2004 European Championships.
		Although the Faroese supporters were mostly concentrated in one block to the south west of the stadium, Faroese flags were visible everywhere in the crowd.
		The Faroese goal (an own goal) scored just before half time was fully deserved, and if the defender, Friedrich hadn't put it into his own net, the Faroese attacker, who he was marking, would certainly have scored.
	www.framtak.com /info/football.html (598 words)

	MavicaNET - Faroese Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Faroese Language Committee is an advisory institute under the aegis of the Ministry of Cultural Affairs.
		The Committee was founded in April 1985, pursuant to the Regulation Governing the Faroese Language Committee.
		The written form of Faroese was established in the 19th century by Venzel Hammershaimb and modeled after Icelandic with almost the same alphabet.
	www.mavicanet.com /lite/por/1353.html (243 words)

	Faroese language (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Faroese is a West Nordic or West Scandinavian language spoken by about 48,000 people in the Faroe Islands and about 25,000 in Denmark.
		It is one of two insular Scandinavian languages which have their origins in the Old Norse language spoken in Scandinavia in the Viking Age, the other being Icelandic.
		Faroese [[keyboard layout]] Some Faroese [[isoglosses]] Until the 15th century, Faroese had a similar orthography to Icelandic and Norwegian, but after the Reformation, the ruling Danes outlawed its use in schools, churches and official documents, i.e the main places where written languages survive in an essentially illiterate society.
	faroese-language.kiwiki.homeip.net.cob-web.org:8888 (519 words)

	The Faroese Studies
		The Department led both the international study of whales in 1986-88 and Biofar, the Nordic study of marine benthic fauna in Faroese waters in 1988-90.
		The National Library has three main functions: To make a collection of all Faroese literature and as much literature as possible written about the Faroe Islands, to be the central library for all the Faroe Islands, and to be a library for scholars.
		This is done with a view to finding out more about the conditions in the sea that affect the reproductive success of various species of fish in Faroese waters, and the conditions affecting the growth of living organisms there.
	www.mundofree.com /islasferoe/thefaroesestudies.html (509 words)

	OHCHR: Faroese () - Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Modern Faroese, like Icelandic, strongly resembles Old Norse.The Faroese language belongs to the Indo-European family, Germanic group, Scandinavian subgroup, and is spoken by 50,000 people.
		Written Faroese appeared rather late and at a time when the language was under strong pressure from Danish, which had become the established language for the church and civil servants of the Faroes (especially after the reformation in 1540).
		But when written Faroese was established, it meant a big boost for the Faroese culture and language.
	www.unhchr.ch /udhr/lang/fae.htm (1604 words)

	Faroese language and culture
		THE FAROE ISLANDS Language and culture The Faroese language is a Nordic language, closely related to Icelandic and to the dialects of Western Norway.
		Faroese language Faroese was a dialect of Old Norse, and appeared as a separate language only due to its insular, isolate position.
		Faroese (Føroyskt) Faroese is the language spoken by most of the 40 000 inhabitants of the Faroe Islands, a Danish possession located midway between Norway and Iceland, although the official language is Danish.
	www.lonweb.org /link-faroese.htm (1017 words)

	Faroese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Faroese culture is a small group inhabiting the Faroe Islands. ; They have lived there since the seventh century and continue to inhabit the small region today. The islands are located northwest of Scotland, between Iceland and Norway.
		Fishing is the primary subsistence activity of the Faroese people because ninety-seven percent of the trade-export volume includes fish products. It is their number one product, and because of this, most of the population is of the working class. After fishing, tourism is the second largest industry on the island.
		This culture is one of seclusion, but also accepting of tourists and other unexpected visitors. The Faroese people hired a sculptor to create a memorial in memory of a famous author who lived on the islands.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/oldworld/europe/faroeseculture.html (287 words)

	The Faroese National Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Director of the Faroese National Archives, which were established in 1932, is responsible for the administration of this law.
		Amongst the archives in the National Archives are those of the Faroese Parliament Løgting which date back to 1615, the archives of the Danish authorities in the Faroe Islands from the 17th century to the present day, and most of the records of modern public institutions up to 1980.
		The office of the Faroese National Archives works closely with National Archives Offices abroad, first and foremost with that of the Danish National Archives, where many records relating to the Faroe Islands are kept.
	www.sleipnir.fo /natarc.htm (356 words)

	Faroese language - Wikimedia Commons
		Faroese is the language spoken in the Faroe Islands.
		Hammershaimb (1819-1909), creator of the Modern Faroese as written language.
		Jakob Jakobsen (1864-1918), Faroese and Old Norse linguist.
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Faroese_language (138 words)

	Faroese language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Faroese (føroyskt [ˈføːɹɪst]), often also spelled Faeroese, is a West Nordic or West Scandinavian language spoken by 48,000 people in the Faroe Islands and about 12,000 Faroese in Denmark.
		This may be why, for example, Faroese has two words for duck: dunna (from Gaelic tunnag) for a domestic duck, and ont (from Old Norse ǫnd) for a duck in general.
		50 lessons of Faroese grammar and language exercises.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Faroese_language (2274 words)

	Icelandic and Faroese Collections: Overviews of the Collections (European Reading Room, Library of Congress)
		The cultural contributions from the Faroe Islands, a semi- autonomous Danish dependency of 43,000 inhabitants located between Iceland and Scotland, are staggering in proportion to its size and astonishing in light of the centuries of economic hardships that drove the Faroese people to the verge of extinction.
		Often mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize, Heinesen is the Faroese counterpart to Halldor Laxness in Iceland.
		Another notable Faroese poster in the LC collection is the disarmament poster depicting a mother holding her child by artist Oliver vidh Neyst.
	www.loc.gov /rr/european/coll/icel.html (2490 words)

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