Faroese language

Name	Faroese
Nativename	føroyskt
Pronunciation
States
Speakers	60,000–80,000
Familycolor	Indo-European
Fam2	Germanic
Fam3	North Germanic
Fam4	West Scandinavian
Script	Latin (Faroese variant)
Nation
Agency	Faroese Language Board Føroyska málnevndin
Iso1	fo\|iso2=fao\|iso3=fao
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Faroese (føroyskt, pronounced or ), is an Insular Nordic language spoken by 48,000 people in the Faroe Islands and about 25,000 Faroese in Denmark and elsewhere. It is one of four languages descended from the Old West Norse language spoken in the Middle Ages, the others being Icelandic, Norwegian and the extinct Norn, which is thought to have been mutually intelligible with Faroese. Faroese and Icelandic, its closest extant relative, are not mutually intelligible in speech, but the written languages resemble each other quite closely.

History

At one point, the language spoken in the Faroes was Old Norse, which Norwegian settlers had brought with them during the time of the landnám that began in AD 825. However, many of the settlers weren't really Norwegians, but descendants of Norwegian settlers in the Irish Sea. In addition, native Norwegian settlers often married women from Norse Ireland, Orkney, or Shetland before settling in the Faroe Islands and Iceland. As a result, Celtic languages influenced both Faroese and Icelandic. There is some debatable evidence of Celtic language place names in the Faroes: for example Mykines and Stóra & Lítla Dímun have been hypothesized to contain Celtic roots.
Other examples of early introduced words of Celtic origin are; "blak/blaðak" (buttermilk) Irish bláthach; "drunnur" (tail-piece of an animal) Irish dronn; "grúkur" (head, headhair) Irish gruaig; "lámur" (hand, paw) Irish lámh; "tarvur" (bull) Irish tarbh; and "ærgi" (pasture in the outfield) Irish áirge.

Between the 9th and the 15th centuries, a distinct Faroese language evolved, although it was still intelligible with the Old West Norse language. This would have been closely related to the Norn language of Orkney and Shetland.

Until the 15th century, Faroese had an orthography similar to Icelandic and Norwegian, but after the Reformation in 1536, the ruling Danes outlawed its use in schools, churches and official documents. The islanders continued to use the language in ballads, folktales, and everyday life. This maintained a rich spoken tradition, but for 300 years the language was not written.

This changed when Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb, along with the Icelandic grammarian, and politician, Jón Sigurðsson, published a written standard for Modern Faroese 1854 that exists to this day. Although this would have been an opportunity to create a phonetically true orthography like that of Finnish, he produced an orthography consistent with a continuous written tradition extending back to Old Norse, which gives the written language a very archaic look similar to Icelandic. The letter ð, for example, has no specific phonemes attached to it. Furthermore, although the letter 'm' corresponds to the bilabial nasal as it does in English, it also corresponds to the alveolar nasal in the dative ending -um .

Hammershaimb's orthography met with some opposition for its complexity, and a rival system was devised by Jakob Jakobsen. Jakobsen's orthography was closer to the spoken language, but was never taken up by speakers.

In 1937, Faroese replaced Danish as the official school language, in 1938 as church language, and in 1948 as national language by the Home Rule Act of the Faroes. However, Faroese didn't become the common language in the media and advertising until the 1980s. Today, Danish is considered a foreign language, though around 5% of the Faroe Islanders learn it as a first language and it is a required subject for students 3rd grade and up.

Learning Faroese

It is unusual for Faroese to be taught at universities outside the Faroes (within Scandinavian studies). However, University College London and the University of Copenhagen have course options in Faroese for students reading Scandinavian Studies. So most students are forced to learn it autodidactically by books, listening to Faroese on the radio (there is an internet live stream) and trying to correspond with Faroese people. A good opportunity for learning Faroese is also visiting websites.

The University of the Faroe Islands offers an annual Summer institute over 3 weeks including:

*50 lessons of Faroese grammar and language exercises.

20 lectures on linguistic subjects, culture, society and nature. The lectures on culture include oral poetry and modern literature.

2 excursions to places of historical and geographical interest.

Alphabet

es]] The Faroese alphabet consists of 29 letters derived from the Latin alphabet:

{|class="wikitable" style="border-collapse:collapse;" |- |bgcolor="#EFEFEF" align="center" colspan="29" | Majuscule Forms (also called uppercase or capital letters) |- |width=3% align="center"|A||width=3% align="center"|Á||width=3% align="center"|B||width=3% align="center"|D||width=3% align="center"|Ð||width=3% align="center"|E||width=3% align="center"|F||width=3% align="center"|G||width=3% align="center"|H||width=3% align="center"|I||width=3% align="center"|Í||width=3% align="center"|J||width=3% align="center"|K||width=3% align="center"|L||width=3% align="center"|M||width=3% align="center"|N||width=3% align="center"|O||width=3% align="center"|Ó||width=3% align="center"|P||width=3% align="center"|R||width=3% align="center"|S||width=3% align="center"|T||width=3% align="center"|U||width=3% align="center"|Ú||width=3% align="center"|V||width=3% align="center"|Y||width=3% align="center"|Ý||width=3% align="center"|Æ||width=3% align="center"|Ø |- |align="center" colspan="29" | Minuscule Forms (also called lowercase or small letters) |- |align="center"|a||align="center"|á||align="center"|b||align="center"|d||align="center"|ð||align="center"|e||align="center"|f||align="center"|g||align="center"|h||align="center"|i||align="center"|í||align="center"|j||align="center"|k||align="center"|l||align="center"|m||align="center"|n||align="center"|o||align="center"|ó||align="center"|p||align="center"|r||align="center"|s||align="center"|t||align="center"|u||align="center"|ú||align="center"|v||align="center"|y||align="center"|ý||align="center"|æ||align="center"|ø |}

Notes:

Ð, ð can never come at the beginning of a word, but can occur in capital letters in logos or on maps, such as SUÐUROY (Southern Isle).

Ø, ø can also be written Ö, ö in poetic language, such as Föroyar (the Faroes) (cf. Swedish-Icelandic typographic/orthographic tradition vs. Norwegian-Danish). In handwriting Ő, ő is used to differentiate ø from ö. Earlier versions of the orthography used both ø and ö with ø being the long ø and ö being the short equivalent. As a result using ö as a substitute for ø is incorrect, since it's not the same letter as ø/ő.

While C, Q, W, X, and Z are not found in the Faroese language, X was known in earlier versions of Hammershaimb's orthography, such as Saxun for Saksun.

While the Faroese keyboard layout allows one to write in Latin, English, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, etc., the Old Norse and Modern Icelandic letter þ is missing. In related Faroese words it is written as <t> or as <h>, and if an Icelandic name has to be transcribed, <th> is common.

Phonology

Vowels

{| align="left" id="toc" style="margin-left: 15px;" width="350" cellpadding="2" style="margin-right:10px;" |- style="background:#ccccff" |bgcolor="#eeeeee"|Grapheme |bgcolor="#eeeeee"|Name |bgcolor="#eeeeee"|Short |bgcolor="#eeeeee"|Long |- |A, a |fyrra a ("leading a") | | |- |Á, á |á | | |- |E, e |e | | |- |I, i |fyrra i ("leading i") | | |- |Í, í |fyrra í ("leading í") | | |- |O, o |o | | |- |Ó, ó |ó | | |- |U, u |u | | |- |Ú, ú |ú | | |- |Y, y |seinna i ("latter i") | | |- |Ý, ý |seinna í ("latter í") | | |- |Æ, æ |seinna a ("latter a") | | |- |Ø, ø |ø | | |- |EI, ei |ei | | |- |EY, ey |ey | | |- |OY, oy |oy | | |- | colspan="4" bgcolor="#eeeeee" | Other vowels |- |ei | - | | |- |ey | - | | |- |oy | - | | |} As in several other Germanic languages, stressed vowels in Faroese are long when not followed by two or more consonants. Two consonants or a consonant cluster usually indicates a short vowel. Exceptions may be short vowels in particles, pronouns, adverbs, and prepositions in unstressed positions, consisting of just one syllable.

As may be seen on the table to the left, Faroese (like English) has a very atypical pronunciation of its vowels, with odd offglides and other features. For example, long í and ý sound almost like a long Hiberno-English i, and long ó like an American English long o.

Short vowels in endings

While in other languages a short /e/ is common for inflectional endings, Faroese uses /a, i, u/. This means that there are no unstressed short vowels except for these three. Even if a short unstressed /e/ is seen in writing, it will be pronounced like /i/: áðrenn (before). Very typical are endings like -ur, -ir, -ar. The dative is often indicated by -um which is always pronounced .

- bátar (boats), kallar ((you) call, (he) calls)

{| align="right" id="toc" style="margin-right: 15px;" width="420" cellpadding="2" style="margin-left:10px;" |- style="background:#ccccff" |colspan="5" align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff"| Unstressed /i/ and /u/ in dialects |- | |bgcolor="#eeeeee"| Borðoy, Kunoy, Tórshavn |bgcolor="#eeeeee"| Viðoy, Svínoy, Fugloy |bgcolor="#eeeeee"| Suðuroy |bgcolor="#eeeeee"| Elsewhere (standard) |- |bgcolor="#ffffff"| gulur (yellow) |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |- |bgcolor="#ffffff"| gulir (yellow pl.) |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |- |bgcolor="#ffffff"| bygdin (the town) |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |- |bgcolor="#ffffff"| bygdum (the towns dat. pl.) |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |- |colspan="6"|Source: Faroese: An Overview and Reference Grammar, 2004 (page 350) |}

- gestir (guests), dugir ((you, he) can)

- bátur (boat), gentur (girls), rennur ((you) run, (he) runs).

In some dialects, unstressed is realized as or is reduced further to . goes under a similar reduction pattern so unstressed and can rhyme. This can cause spelling mistakes related to these two vowels. The table to the right displays the different realizations in different dialects.

Glide Insertion

Faroese avoids having a hiatus between two vowels by inserting a glide. Orthographically, this is shown in three ways: # vowel + ð + vowel # vowel + g + vowel # vowel + vowel

Typically, the first vowel is long and in words with two syllables always stressed, while the second vowel is short and unstressed. In Faroese, short and unstressed vowels can only be .

Ð and G as glides

{| align=right id="toc" style="margin-left: 15px;" width="450" cellpadding="2" |- style="background:#ccccff" |colspan="6" align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff"| Glide insertion |- |bgcolor="#eeeeee" colspan="2" rowspan= 2 align="center" width="150"| First vowel |bgcolor="#eeeeee" colspan="3" align="center" width="150"| Second vowel |bgcolor="#eeeeee" rowspan="3" align="center" width="150"| Examples |- |bgcolor="#eeeeee" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="50"| i |bgcolor="#eeeeee" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="50"| u |bgcolor="#eeeeee" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="50"| a |- |bgcolor="#eeeeee" | Grapheme |bgcolor="#eeeeee" | Phoneme |bgcolor="#eeeeee" colspan="3" align="center" | Glide |- |width="33%" colspan="6" bgcolor="#dddddd" align="center"| I-surrounding Type 1 |- |bgcolor="#ffffff"| i, y |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| sigið, siður, siga |- |bgcolor="#ffffff"| í, ý |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| mígi, mígur, míga |- |bgcolor="#ffffff"| ey |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| reyði, reyður, reyða |- |bgcolor="#ffffff"| ei |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| reiði, reiður, reiða |- |bgcolor="#ffffff"| oy |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| noyði, royður, royða |- |width="33%" colspan="6" bgcolor="#dddddd" align="center"| U-surrounding Type 2 |- |bgcolor="#ffffff"| u |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| suði, mugu, suða |- |bgcolor="#ffffff"| ó |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| róði, róðu, Nóa |- |bgcolor="#ffffff"| ú |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| búði, búðu, túa |- |width="33%" colspan="6" bgcolor="#dddddd" align="center"| I-surrounding Type 2, U-surrounding Type 2, A-surrounding Type 1 |- |bgcolor="#ffffff"| a, æ |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| - |bgcolor="#ffffff"| ræði, æðu, glaða |- |bgcolor="#ffffff"| á |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| - |bgcolor="#ffffff"| ráði, fáur, ráða |- |bgcolor="#ffffff"| e |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| - |bgcolor="#ffffff"| gleði, legu, gleða |- |bgcolor="#ffffff"| o |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| - |bgcolor="#ffffff"| togið, smogu, roða |- |bgcolor="#ffffff"| ø |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| |bgcolor="#ffffff"| - |bgcolor="#ffffff"| løgin, røðu, høgan |- |colspan="6"|Source: Faroese: An Overview and Reference Grammar, 2004 (page 38) |}

<Ð> and are used in Faroese orthography to indicate one of a number of glide rather than any one phoneme. This can be: # #*"I-surrounding, type 1" - after /i, y, í, ý, ei, ey, oy/: bíða (to wait), deyður (dead), seyður (sheep) #*"I-surrounding, type 2" - between any vowel (except "u-vowels" /ó, u, ú/) and /i/: kvæði (ballad), øði (rage). # "U-surrounding, type 1" - after /ó, u, ú/: Óðin (Odin), góðan morgun! (good morning!), suður (south), slóða (to make a trace). # #*"U-surrounding, type 2" - between /a, á, e, æ, ø/ and /u/: áður (before), leður (leather), í klæðum (in clothes), í bløðum (in newspapers). #*"A-surrounding, type 2" #**These are exceptions (there is also a regular pronunciation): æða (eider-duck), røða (speech). #**The past participles have always : elskaðar (beloved, nom., acc. fem. pl.) #Silent #*"A-surrounding, type 1" - between /a, á, e, o/ and /a/ and in some words between <æ, ø> and : ráða (to advise), gleða (to gladden, please), boða (to forebode), kvøða (to chant), røða (to make a speech)

Skerping (sharpening)

{| align=right id="toc" style="margin-left: 15px;" width="350" cellpadding="2" style="margin-right:10px;" |- |colspan="3" align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff"| Skerping |- style="background:#ccccff" |bgcolor="#eeeeee"| Written |bgcolor="#eeeeee"| Pronunciation |bgcolor="#eeeeee"| instead of |- | -ógv- | |* |- | -úgv- | |* |- | -eyggj- | |* |- | -íggj-, -ýggj- | |* |- | -eiggj- | |* |- | -oyggj- | |* |} The so-called "skerping" (Thráinsson et al. use the term "Faroese Verschärfung" - in Faroese, skerping means "sharpening") is a typical phenomenon of fronting back vowels before and monophthongizing certain diphthongs before . Skerping is not indicated orthographically. These consonants occur often after /ó, ú/ (ógv, úgv) and /ey, í, ý, ei, oy/ when no other consonant is following.

: Jógvan (a form of the name John), Gjógv (cleft)

: kúgv (cow), trúgva (believe), but: trúleysur (faithless)

: heyggjur (high, burial mound), but heygnum (dat. sg. with suffix article)

: nýggjur (new m.), but nýtt (n.)

: beiggi (brother)

: oyggj (island), but oynna (acc. sg. with suffix article)

Consonants

{| class="wikitable" ! || Labial|| Apical|| Post-
alveolar|| Palatal|| Velar|| Glottal |- !Plosive | || || |||| || |- !Affricate | || || || || || |- !Fricative | || || || || || |- !Nasal | || |||| || || |- !Approximant | || || || || || |- |}

There are several phonological processes involved in Faroese, including:

*Liquids are devoiced before voiceless consonants

Nasals generally assume the place of articulation and laryngeal settings of following consonants.

Velar stops palatalize to postalveolar affricates before and

becomes before voiceless consonants

becomes after and before and may assimilate the retroflexion of a preceding to become .

Pre-occlusion of original to and to .

Omissions in consonant clusters

Faroese tends to omit the first or second consonant in clusters of different consonants:

fjals (mountain's gen.) instead of * from (nom.). Other examples for genitives are: barns (child's), vatns (lake's, water's).

hjálpti (helped) past sg. instead of * from hjálpa . Other examples for past forms are: sigldi (sailed), yrkti (wrote poetry).

homophone are fylgdi (followed) and fygldi (caught birds with net): .

skt will be:

# in words of more than one syllable: føroyskt (Faroese n. sg.; also ) russiskt (Russian n. sg.), íslendskt (Icelandic n. sg.).

# in monosyllables: enskt (English n. sg.), danskt (Danish n. sg.), franskt (French n. sg.), spanskt (Spanish n. sg.), svenskt (Swedish n. sg.), týskt (German n. sg.).

#*However in: írskt (Irish n. sg.), norskt (Norwegian ''n. sg.)

Grammar

Faroese grammar is related and very similar to that of modern Icelandic and Old Norse. Faroese is an inflected language with three grammatical genders and four cases: nominative, accusative, dative and genitive.

Faroese numbers and expressions

{| class="wikitable" ! Number !! Faroese |- | 0 || null |- | 1 || eitt |- | 2 || tvey |- | 3 || trý |- | 4 || fýra |- | 5 || fimm |- | 6 || seks |- | 7 || sjey |- | 8 || átta |- | 9 || níggju |- | 10 || tíggju |- | 11 || ellivu |- | 12 || tólv |- | 13 || trettan |- | 14 || fjúrtan |- | 15 || fimtan |- | 16 || sekstan |- | 17 || seytjan |- | 18 || átjan |- | 19 || nítjan |- | 20 || tjúgu |- | 21 || einogtjúgu |- | 22 || tveyogtjúgu |- | 30 || tredivu, tríati |- | 40 || fjøruti, fýrati |- | 50 || hálvtrýss, fimmti |- | 60 || trýss, seksti |- | 70 || hálvfjers, sjeyti |- | 80 || fýrs, áttati |- | 90 || hálvfems, níti |- | 100 || hundrað |- | 1000 || (eitt) túsund |}

References

External links

Føroysk orðabók (the Faroese-Faroese dictionary of 1998 online)

Sprotin (complete English-Faroese/Faroese-English and Danish-Faroese online dictionary - requires a subscription)

Faroese online syntactic analyser and morphological analyser/generator

FMN.fo - Faroese Language Committee (Official site with further links)

Faeroese - English Dictionary from Webster's Online Dictionary - The Rosetta Edition.

'Hover & Hear' Faroese pronunciations, and compare with equivalents in English and other Germanic languages.

Ethnologue report on Faroese

Useful Faroese Words & Phrases for Travelers

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Uploaded: 2010-11-22
Author: northatlantic78rpm

Havið trúgv ( Belive in God ). Mandskor BETESDA, Klaksvik, Faroe Islands. Conductor: Theodor við Keldu. Recorded in Copenhagen, Denmark 1946. Polyphon X 51155 - A. In the summer 1946, the males fraction from the local Baptist Choir of the Baptist Church "Betesda" in Klaksvik, Faroe Islands, visited Denmark. Denmark and the Faroe Islands were separated between 1940-45. Denmark was occupied by the Germans, and Faroe Islands was occupied by the British Forces. During this 1946 visit in Denmark, several Baptist services in the Faroese language were arranged. During this visit, they also recorded three 78rpm records for the Danish record compagny Polyphon. Jógvan Gerðalíð from klaksvík arranged this. The recordings took place in the concert hall of Odd Fellow Building in Bredgade in Copenhagen. Each record was made in 300 copies, and was a great succes at the Faroe Islands. This was the very first time some Faroese songs were recorded in the Faroese language by the Faroese people. Before, in 1928 and 1937 a few attempts of recording 78rpm's in the Faroese language were done, but only with Swedish and Danish concerto singers. In spite that these records were made during the recyckling of old records in Denmark between 1940-49, Polyphon never asked the Faroese People to return 900 old records! A grand gesture during a time with serious scarity of shellach.

Ormurin langi (Faroese Ballad) - English subtitles

Duration: 5:00
Published: 2009-06-07
Uploaded: 2010-12-14
Author: Huldumavur

Part of 'Ormurin langi' (Viking Longship 'The long Serpent') - English subtitles

FAROESE FILM " RANNVÁ " trailer

Duration: 2:09
Published: 2009-09-29
Uploaded: 2010-12-15
Author: miguelbarna

Trailer of first Faroese story film in Faroese language

Faroese: Languages of the World: Introductory Overviews

Duration: 9:11
Published: 2008-04-27
Uploaded: 2010-11-17
Author: ProfASAr

Alexander Arguelles presents a series of videos to provide introductory overviews of the languages of the world. Working diachronically through various language families in turn, he demonstrates how to identify each language, translates a text sample to show how it works, and discusses its genetic affiliation and cultural context. For further information about the series, please refer to www.foreignlanguageexpertise.com

FAROESE FILM "HEYSTBLÓMUR" trailer

Duration: 1:50
Published: 2009-11-08
Uploaded: 2010-12-15
Author: miguelbarna

A film by the author of "Rannvá" and "Páll Fangi", also with a full Faroese cast and Faroese language.

Me singing Fagra Blóma - Faroese song!

Duration: 4:17
Published: 2009-09-09
Uploaded: 2010-12-06
Author: Masteroth1

Yup..... This time I am trying to sing "Fagra Blóma" (Beautiful Flower)..... In FAROESE! And I don't quite know the language (yet).... I know what the sentences in the song mean though..... It's just very hard to pronounce them... ARG! But I love the (weird) Faroese language. DON'T mind the Danish text in the background! Hehehheeh....

Týr - Valhalla (Lyrics)

Duration: 5:06
Published: 2009-12-04
Uploaded: 2010-12-14
Author: dansktpjatt

Valhalla by Týr (With Lyrics) Comment and rate if you like.

Allan Simonsen, Faroese National Team coach (1997). German report

Duration: 8:32
Published: 2009-03-14
Uploaded: 2010-08-27
Author: Farerets

This German language report from September 1997 is about Allan Rodenkam Simonsen, one of the greatest Scandinavian footballers of all time and a succesfull manager of the Faroese National Team between 1994 and 2001. Allan Simonsen was born in Vejle, Denmark in 1952. He started his football career with his home club, Vejle BK. Allan most prominently played for German team Borussia Mönchengladbach, winning the 1975 and 1979 UEFA Cups, for FC Barcelona from Spain, winning the 1982 Cup Winners' Cup and for Charlton Athletic in England. Allan Simonsen is the only footballer to have scored in the European Cup, UEFA Cup, and Cup Winners' Cup finals, and he was named 1977 European Footballer of the Year. For the Denmark national football team, Simonsen was capped 55 times, scoring 20 goals. He represented Denmark at the 1972 Summer Olympics, 1984 European Championship and 1986 World Cup tournaments. This report does include some rare footage of Allan Simonsen's playing days, especially his two goals for Denmark against Brazil in 1972 Olympic games. Also incuded are highlights of Faroes-Czechia 1998 World cup qualifying game, played in Toftir on September 6, 1997. The Czechs won 2-0 (Vladimir Smicer 16, Pavel Kuka 32 penalty). There are short interviews with Faroese players Todi Jónsson and Jens Martin Knudsen. There are also good pictures of Faroes, Svangaskarð staduim in Toftir and Faroese international Vága airport.

Another Kozea sample [constructed language]

Duration: 8:17
Published: 2010-05-10
Uploaded: 2010-08-26
Author: Skomakarn

This time, I will go through another quite large example of Kozea, but I will also translate it this time. I'm translating the lyrics of a song made by the Faroese folk metal band Týr, and so, you will get to hear me speaking in three languages in this video; English, Kozea and Faroese.

Commodore 64 running Mssiah cartridge (Monosynthesizer)

Duration: 1:26
Published: 2010-02-26
Uploaded: 2010-08-27
Author: Spazimusic

Sorry, I am speaking the Faroese Language. My Commodore 64 with MSSIAH cartridge. I added a Juno Chorus effect and made the stereo image wider. But it's still basically the 8bit machine making wonder sounds!

Merry Christmas (Multi-Language)

Duration: 1:22
Published: 2007-12-28
Uploaded: 2010-12-06
Author: MultiDub

[Hikeni] ~CAST~ English - Roeline Norwegian - Piianiiz & I-eat-homework Danish - JTwinklex Icelandic - Tunfiskur Faroese - Vierett Finnish - Kendeelyo & Tunfiskur German - Rutt Dutch - Kendeelyo Polish - CalaPL & Kendeelyo Esperando - Vierett Spanish - Hikeni Italian - Chr0o French - Maetel Hawaiian - Piianiiz Hebrew - DISCOnnected90 Chinese, Mandarin - Piianiiz Swahili - Hikeni Swedish - NemiLenor Serbian - NemiLenor First dub on this accont :D Yay!~ Finally is it done :DA Merry Christmas Multi by Multidub ^_____^ multidub.forumer.com The idea was mine, but everyone helped to make this video. They chose one or several languages and make disney-characters say that sentence in the chosen language :DD Most of the clips are provide by the dubber or someone else in the forum. Everone did great, seriosly it was fun to mix it together (Even though I made some mistakes on some places XDD) Yeah I just discovered that I mispellled Faroese XDD Yay for Multidub! Your guys are totally awesome!!~ AND MERRY CHRISTMAS! © Disney owns all of the characters and clips we only borrowed them

Faroese Ballad 'Gudbrandskvæði' - the last Heathen Chieftan in Norway

Duration: 5:40
Published: 2009-05-22
Uploaded: 2010-09-13
Author: Huldumavur

The 'Faroese Dance' is actually of French origin. The dance is a mediaeval ring dance, which only survived in the Faroe Islands, while in other European countries it was banned by the church, due to its pagan origin. It's always accompanied by a Ballad. THIS BALLAD: King Olaf of Norway is trying to convert the last Heathen Chieftan in his Country to Christianity.

Response to: Faroese: Languages of the World: Introductory Overviews - Read by a Faroese.

Duration: 2:56
Published: 2010-10-20
Uploaded: 2010-12-01
Author: mouammik

This is a video response to: Faroese: Languages of the World: Introductory Overviews Where I pronounce the words correctly. You must watch the original video first. Here is the text: Víðvíkjandi føroyskum ætli eg at gera mítt besta. Eg skilji, at nógv fólk duga danskt eisini. Ja, øll duga danskt, og nógv danskt verður lisi her; men sjálvandi hevði eingin Føroyoingur nakrantíð kunna hugsa sær at tosa við ein landsmann á donskum! Talumálið hevur altíð verið føroyskt, og nú vinnur tað skjótt fram í stýri og handli, í kirkju og skúlum. Eg sá nógvar føroyskar bøkur í handlunum, og eg legði til merkis, at bløðini her eru skrivað næstan bara á føroyskum. Og vit halda tað vera rætt soleiðis! Kann vera at ein Onglendingur ikki rættiliga fata, hvat tað er at stríðast fyri einum máli - sínum egna máli!

Týr: Turið Torkilsdóttir (Letra y subtítulos en español // English translation)

Duration: 4:25
Published: 2010-03-19
Uploaded: 2010-12-02
Author: davealcarin

// Spanish (English in More Info) Canción de Týr, del álbum By the Light of the Northern Star. Habla de Turið Torkilsdóttir (Turið hija de Torkil), que fue la primera mujer cristiana de las islas Feroe, casada con el religioso noruego Sigmundur Brestisson, quien cristianizó dichas islas en torno al año 999. La canción está cantada en feroés, lengua de las islas Feroe, y segunda lengua viva más parecida a la antigua lengua vikinga. Las imágenes son todas de las Islas Feroe, los Fiordos Noruegos y de Escandinavia en general. Espero que disfrutéis del vídeo tanto como yo al crearlo. //English This is a song of Týr, from the album "By the Light of the Northern Star". The song refers to Turið Torkilsdóttir (Turið Torkil's daughter), who was the first christian woman from the Faroe Islands, and married the Norwegian religious Sigmundur Brestisson, who christened these islands around AD 999 . This song is sung in Faroese, the language of the Faroe Islands, and the second living language most similar to the ancient viking language. The pics are all from the Faroe, the Fjords of Norway and Escandinavia in general. I hope you enjoy this video so much as I did creating it. Lyrics. The water runs of high mountains And along sharp rocks So painfull it is to love him Who doesn't love you back The day goes by, the night comes Darkness falls on fair ground Tomorrow let us saddle the horses for a race "Your land is so unpleasant For there is bad weather and wind. Much better it is in the ...

Ólavur Riddararós - Faroese Folk

Duration: 4:49
Published: 2008-07-19
Uploaded: 2010-12-10
Author: Huldumavur

Trad. Faroese Folk Scottish Harkaliðið & The McCalmans 1971 Ólavur Riddararós - 'Olaf Knightrose' is seduced by an elf maid on his way to perpare his own wedding. When he refuses her flirting, she casts a spell over him, which results in the death of him, his bride and his mother. Lyrics from trad. Faroese Ballad, recorded by JH Schrøter in 1825 7. Ólavur ríður eftir bjørgunum fram, - kol og smiður við - fann upp á eitt elvarrann. CHORUS: -ungir kallar, kátir kallar gangið uppá gólv, dansið lystilig- 9. Út kom eitt tað elvarfljóð, flættað hár á herðar dró. 11. "Ver vælkomin, Ólavur Riddararós, tú gakk í dansin og kvøð for os!" 15. Eg kann ikki longur hjá elvum vera, í morgin lati eg mítt brúdleyp gera." 17. Vilt tú ikki longur hjá elvum vera, sjúkur skalt tú títt brúdleyp gera. 18. Hvat heldur vilt tú sjú vintur liggja sjúk, ella vilt tú í morgin liggja lík? 20. "Tveir eru kostirnir, hvørgin er mjúkur, ilt er at liggja leingi sjúkur. 22. Fyrr vil eg í morgin til moldar gá, enn eg vil sjú vintur liggja á strá." 24. Hon bar fram eitt drykkjusteyp, eiturkornið í tí fleyt. 30. "Tú sig tíni móður, tá ið tú kemur heim, tín foli snublaði um ein stein." 31. Ólavur heim í garðin fór, úti hans móðir fyri honum stóð. 32. "Hví ert tú so følin, hví ert tú so bleik, sum tú hevur verið í elvarleik?" 35. Tí eri eg følin, tí eri eg [sum] bast, í gjár var eg í elvarlast." 36. Ólavur vendist til veggin brátt, hann doyði langt fyri midnátt. 37. Har komu av tí búda trý lík, tey vóru so prúda ...

Faroese Praise - 'Stór er tín trúfesti', Fjarðafestival 2008

Duration: 5:47
Published: 2008-08-31
Uploaded: 2010-08-27
Author: NabhiFaroe

Lovsangur, 'Stór er tín trúfesti' - Heini Lützen, felagssangur á Fjarðafestivalinum 2008 Stór er tín trúfesti, o, Gud mín Faðir, tað er ei broytandi skuggi í tær. Kærleikin botnleysur, ómáld tín náði, Tú ert hin sami, sum áður tú var. Stór er tín trúfesti, Stór er tín trúfesti, nýggj hvønn ein morgun er náðin frá tær. Alt í eg njóti frá tær er tað komið, stór er tín trúðfesti, Harri mót mær. Summarið veturin, várið og heystið, sólin og mánin og stjørnurnar við. Náttúran eisini prógvar hitt sama, Gud er í trúfesti við vára lið.

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