Faroese leid

Faroese
føroyskt
Pronunciation	IPA: [ˈføːɹɪst]]
Native tae	Faroe Islands, Denmark
Native speakers	aroond 70,000-75,000
Leid faimily	Indo-European Germanic North Germanic Wast Scandinavian Faroese
Writin seestem	Laitin (Faroese alphabet)
Offeecial status
Offeecial leid in	Faroe Islands
Recognised minority leid in	Denmark
Regulatit bi	Faroese Leid Board Føroyska málnevndin
Leid codes
ISO 639-1	fo
ISO 639-2	fao
ISO 639-3	fao
Linguasphere	52-AAA-ab
Faroese keyboard layoot

Faroese^[1] (føroyskt, pronoonced [ˈføːɹɪst] or [ˈføːɹɪʂt]), is an Insular Nordic leid spoken bi aboot 50,000 fowk in the Faroe Islands an aboot 25,000 Faroese in Denmark an elsewhaur. It is ane o fower leids descendit frae the Auld Wast Norse leid spaken in the Middle Ages, the ithers being Icelandic, Norse an the extinct Norn, which is thoucht to hae been mutually intelligible wi Faroese. Faroese an Icelandic, its closest extant relative, are nae mutually intelligible in speech, but the scrievit leids resemble ilk ither a muckle.^[2]

1. ↑ While the spelling Faeroese is an aa seen, Faroese is the spellin uised in grammars, textbuiks, scientific airticles an dictionaries atween Faroese an Inglis.
2. ↑ Language and nationalism in Europe, p. 106, Stephen Barbour, Cathie Carmichael, Oxford University Press, 2000