Faroese orthography information

IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Faroese orthography is the method employed to write the Faroese language, using a 29-letter Latin alphabet...

languages resemble each other quite closely, largely owing to Faroese's etymological orthography. Around 900 AD, the language spoken in the Faroes was Old...

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...

official Faroese orthography by Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb, the Faroese language conflict saw Danish being gradually displaced by Faroese as the language...

Faroese language and its literature, most notably his conflict with Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb over the development of the Faroese orthography,...

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/...

The Bible translations into Faroese have been relatively new, partly because the modern orthography began only in the latter half of the 19th century...

March 25, 1819 – April 8, 1909) was a Faroese Lutheran minister who established the modern orthography of Faroese – the language of the Faroe Islands –...

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...

The orthographic depth of an alphabetic orthography indicates the degree to which a written language deviates from simple one-to-one letter–phoneme correspondence...

The Icelandic orthography uses a Latin-script alphabet including some letters duplicated with acute accents; in addition, it includes the letter eth (⟨ð⟩...

/ / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. English orthography is the writing system used to represent spoken English, allowing readers...

⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. German orthography is the orthography used in writing the German language, which is largely phonemic...

The modern Latvian orthography is based on Latin script adapted to phonetic principles, following the pronunciation of the language. The standard alphabet...

problem when writing Faroese in the same tradition, as "ó" is a part of the Faroese alphabet. Thus ő is sometimes used for ø in Faroese. The IPA and many...

different spelling orthographies were developed in the Dutch East Indies and British Malaya respectively, influenced by the orthographies of their respective...

/ / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language. It is...

Faroese literature, in the traditional sense of the word, has only really developed in the past two hundred years. This is mainly because of the islands'...

that is, c, g, h, j, and s circumflex, and u breve. Standard Esperanto orthography uses the Latin script. The letters have approximately the sound values...

Italian orthography (the conventions used in writing Italian) uses 21 letters of the 26-letter Latin alphabet to write the Italian language. This article...

The orthography of the Greek language ultimately has its roots in the adoption of the Greek alphabet in the 9th century BC. Some time prior to that, one...

/ / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Welsh orthography uses 29 letters (including eight digraphs) of the Latin script to write...

(autonomy). Faroese placenames were Danicised in an era when no Faroese orthography existed, but the Danish names were replaced by Faroese ones during...

Czech orthography is a system of rules for proper formal writing (orthography) in Czech. The earliest form of separate Latin script specifically designed...