Ethnic group and nation native to the Faroe Islands
Faroese people føroyingar
Faroese folk dancers in national costumes
Total population
c. 70,000
Regions with significant populations
Faroe Islands
≈50,000[1]
Denmark
21,687[2]
Norway
1,981[3][dubious – discuss]
Languages
Faroese Danish (Gøtudanskt)
Religion
Lutheranism (Church of the Faroe Islands) Historically also the Norse religion and Roman Catholicism (1000–1538)
Related ethnic groups
Danes, Norwegians, Swedes, Icelanders, Celts
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Faroese people or Faroe Islanders (Faroese: føroyingar; Danish: færinger) are an ethnic group native to the Faroe Islands.[4] The Faroese are of mixed Norse and Gaelic origins.[5]
About 21,000 Faroese live in neighbouring countries, particularly in Denmark, Iceland and Norway. Most Faroese are citizens of the Kingdom of Denmark, in which the Faroe Islands are a constituent nation. The Faroese language is one of the North Germanic languages and is closely related to Icelandic and to western Norwegian varieties.
^According to a 2009 estimate, the population of the Faroe Islands was 49,000, ~92% of that population was Faroese born, which is approximately 45,000. (See demographics of the Faroe Islands)
^Politiken Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, 2006 (newspaper written in Danish)
^"Table 5 Persons with immigrant background by immigration category, country background and sex. 1 January 2009". www.ssb.no. Archived from the original on 20 August 2020. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
^Minahan, James (2000). One Europe, many nations: a historical dictionary of European national groups. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 769. ISBN 0313309841. Archived from the original on 16 January 2023. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
^Als, T. D.; Jorgensen, T. H.; Børglum, A. D.; Petersen, P. A.; Mors, O.; Wang, A. G. (2006). "Highly discrepant proportions of female and male Scandinavian and British Isles ancestry within the isolated population of the Faroe Islands". European Journal of Human Genetics. 14 (4): 497–504. doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201578. PMID 16434998.
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