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it makes me so happy to see people taking an interest in my native language! I barely see anything about faroese on social media so it was a very pleasant surprise to have this show up on my recomended :)

How great for Hilbert to get this sort of opportunity! This is great!

Thanks to bumblebees we have this great summary about the Faroese language. Appreciated!

Native Faroese here, giving notes as I watch. :) Well, "Sauðabréfit" is called "Seyðabrævið" in Faroese. Blaðak is not seen today but the shortened form blak is used. Lámur also means "left-handed person". Þorn has never been used in modern Faroese. Case order in Faroese is strictly NADG (the existence of G in modern Faroese is debatable but I'll leave it for now). Your table says NAGD but the singular paradigm in 18:06 is NADG. Gen.pl. of barn is barna, not *børna. The explanation of ö vs. ø is not quite right. (Standardised) Old Norse had three letters worth pointing out: ø, ǿ (or œ), and ǫ. These develop differently in Faroese and Icelandic: ǿ in Icelandic merges with æ, while ø and ǫ merge but are written as ö. In Faroese, these three merge with each other (ǫ becomes o before nasal consonants however) and originally they were written differently, so /ø/ from ø and ǿ were written as ø (FO døma vs ON dǿma and IS dæma), while /ø/ from ǫ was written as ö (FO sögu vs. ON sǫgu and IS sögu) but we haven't made this distinction since around WWII, so now all are written as ø (døma, søgu). Faroese didn't replace Danish as language of instruction in 1937, it was merely granted equal status, so teachers could choose which one they wanted to use. Regarding the media: Faroese media has always only used Faroese, Faroese radio was established in 1957, and 1984 was when we finally got a Faroese television station. A lot of things broadcast on said station is however in unsubtitled Danish or has Danish subtitles. Gøtudanskt is Danish pronounced literally with (mostly) Faroese pronunciation rules. A Faroese speaking proper Danish is more difficult to differentiate from a native Dane (unless you know which exact things to look out for). I don't think the dialects of Suðuroy have been more influenced by Danish in any way. They are certainly distinct but that could just as well be attributed to natural evolution. All in all, very interesting presentation, Hilbert. Thank you.

Very interesting! Talking about cases, in the Elfdalian language in Sweden, there still are case endings!

Currently learning Faroese! This was so cool

Thanks for this - much needed and very intersting. So much respect for the Faroese for fighting for their language. 'cam' is also modern Welsh for crooked too. Irish 'Lamh' is cognate to Welsh 'llaw' (hand) and 'Tarbh' to Welsh 'tarw' (bull). In terms of language accent and intonation, this could be a similar situation to what happened to Dutch as it became Afrikaans - white Dutch children were brought up by indentured Coloured/San/Black/Malay women who had to learn Dutch and so simplified the language. There's a reason we say 'mother tongue'. The role of the mother, or women was instrumental in passing on the language.

Also, another very common word to hear, from the occupation, is "yes/yiss". We don't write it, but you will hear it fairly commonly.

Eastern icelantic and northern danish dialects, actually kept the "original" hv-pronounciation. Also, while a valid example, "hvussu" is mostly pronounced more like "gusseh", the 'hv' in that particlar word, is almost never heard in day-to-day speech.

I've learned some Danish and was fascinated by these insights into Faroese - so well researched and presented, I enjoyed every minute. Thank you so much, Hilbert, this was really excellent! 👏👏👏

very good talk. thanks.

At 17:20 you mention that the Norwegian word for "what" is pronounced with just a V-sound, as opposed to Faroese, but in most Norwegian dialects the same sound change happened, so in most dialects of Norwegian, the word for "what" is pronounced with a K at the beginning. For example, in my dialect we say "ka". The same also applies to words like "whale" and "whine", which became "kval" and "kvin" in most Norwegian dialects.

Keep on going places, my dude!

I love this! Hilbert really did my language justice, though I've personally never heard the word tineyggjari before. Everyone I've spoken to always uses the word tannáringur 🤔 Fun fact about Gøtudanskt: if I recall correctly, the term and usage of Gøtudanskt came from this one teacher in Gøta who spoke Danish with an incredibly heavy accent. His name escapes me at the moment, but his way of speaking Danish amused everyone so much that it was essentially named after him, and I can imagine many of his pronunciations became standard.

Thank you for informing me more about my own language faroese

Awesome! Most beautiful place i’ve ever visited, couldn’t help but notice that that they like country music, don’t know why it’s so popular there. i wonder if vestmanna referred to an irish origin?

17:28 you can also say in Norwegian : Kva heitar du

One thing you left out, or forgot, is our names. The Danish church forced us to change our names. Today many people are changing their last names away from Danish.

14:44 sorry mate but i live in the Faroe Islands and the only words I understood were Lámur (which means left handed when used in a sentence) and tarvur (that one you got right)

The English loanwords entered Faroe much earlier than WWII. There were British sailors coming to the Faroe Islands every year throughout the centuries, and English affected Faroese language, especially the Dialect spoken in Tórshavn, so words like "fokkaður" (f**ked), fruntur (front), fittur (fit/nice), gella (girl), boysar (boys), peia (to pay), etc. have been in Faroese for hundreds of years - Tórður Jóansson published a book about this a few years ago called "English Loanwords in Faroese." - unfurtunately it's out of print now.

This was very informative and interesting 👍! Thank you!

Thank you. That was a great job. it was really enjoyable to follow along. I am Norwegian by country and language, and Norse by culture. Maybe my view on independence might have some value. The Kingdom of Denmark has three countries: Denmark, Faroes, and Greenland. The best example I have of independence is when Denmark joined the European Union. The Faroes did not join the European Union. They turned down the treaty. Though, international defense is still managed by the Kingdom of Denmark (in consultation). Also by agreement, The handful of truly dangerous criminals are "housed" in Denmark. Some Danes say, "But we send you a support stipend every year." The Faroes respond, "Yes, you do. Thank you very much - the amount of the salaries of two good football players." Anyway, The Faroes are independent, kind, and naturally helpful. It is a place where "Dugnad" still lives - in the form of "One Word." It is a single word not understood intellectually. It is in the bones. ⛵⛵⛵

Didn’t know you speak Dutch as first language! I was thinking in your other videos wow his Dutch pronunciation is really, almost scary good 😂 No wonder!

Very interesting talk and also very brave attempt at Faroese pronunciation xD

Now we are 54.000 people in Faroe Islands🇫🇴

Great and interesting video. Some minor errors (as pointed out in a comment below), but overall quite accurate :)

very good job and thorough research, i learned a lot from this even as a native Faroese speaker. btw i've noticed the bumblebees appearing, very strange.

This mentioned gaelic connection might go far deeper though. I recently stumpled upon a quite fascinating old hypothesis, that all the diphtongs (very characteristic in icelandic and faroese) reflects a celtic 'substratum" mixed into old norse, and that in fact this phenonema is equally at play also in all those places where an invading germanic spekaing population came to a country with a celtic population (france, belgium, england). Thus, the strange vowel-combinations in french, the dipthtongs in dutch and in english, would all be remnants of a celtic pronounciations, while the skandivanian languages (along maybe with some kind of german?), with their simple vowels, would be 'unmixed' germanic.

In regarding of the Faroe Islands translating to Föroyar oyar, there is a baseball team in the USA called The Los Angeles Angels, which translates to The The Angels Angels for Hispanic people.. Just Interesting

When I compare Icelandic and Faroese to people, I say Icelandic is a little bit of a simplified viking language, spoken like it's too cold to say things properly (a lot of it is slurred). Faroese is what happens if an Irishman were to try to speak Icelandic without knowing their phonetics.

Teenager is “Tannáringur”. you’re not wrong though, we do say teenager as well but it’s written in English

The Faroe Islands are not a possesion of Denmark, they are part of Denmark and they have self-government, if they have a majority in their Løgtingið (Faroese people's parliament) then they can secede from Denmark. Their laws are not the same as in the rest of Denmark.If they want to study at university, they have to go to Denmark and the Danish language is necessary there, this is also the reason why Icelanders still learn Danish. It is important to remember how few people they are.

at 4:07 - this isn't correct - Torshavn to Scalloway in Shetland is 234nm / 433km / 269 miles, not 750km. Shetland is the closest place to Faroe. The old Norn language of Shetland was close to Faroese, and much of the Shetland dialect words are from Norn and are common to Faroese and west Norwegian dialects.

“You don’t look very Egyptian”😄

It keeps stopping

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The Faroe Islands are 320 kilometres from the British Isles, not 750 km.

I've been reading faroese after studying icelandic. Somehow I understand it better than icelandic. I think its the grammatical constructions. I don't find anywhere the Thorn character. Insted they use just T.

And it's 1.367,5 km away from Denmark which I think you should have mentioned since it's actually under/a part of Denmark. 😉

There were a whole lot of errors in this video, unfortunately.

In real Norwegian you say:”Kva heitter du?”not :”Hva heter du?🤬

Poor Scottish guy...