• IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Faroese orthography is the method employed to write the Faroese language, using a 29-letter Latin alphabet...
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  • languages resemble each other quite closely, largely owing to Faroese's etymological orthography. Around 900 AD, the language spoken in the Faroes was Old...
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    official Faroese orthography by Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb, the Faroese language conflict saw Danish being gradually displaced by Faroese as the language...
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  • 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...
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    Jakob Jakobsen (category 19th-century Faroese people)
    Faroese language and its literature, most notably his conflict with Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb over the development of the Faroese orthography,...
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  • The Bible translations into Faroese have been relatively new, partly because the modern orthography began only in the latter half of the 19th century...
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  • Y
    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/...
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    Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb (category Pages with Faroese IPA)
    March 25, 1819 – April 8, 1909) was a Faroese Lutheran minister who established the modern orthography of Faroese – the language of the Faroe Islands –...
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  • The orthographic depth of an alphabetic orthography indicates the degree to which a written language deviates from simple one-to-one letter–phoneme correspondence...
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  • Silent letter (category English orthography)
    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...
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    a diphthong, pronounced [au] in Icelandic and [ɔa] in Faroese. The short variation of Faroese á is pronounced [ɔ], though. In some place names, the old...
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    The Icelandic orthography uses a Latin-script alphabet including some letters duplicated with acute accents; in addition, it includes the letter eth (⟨ð⟩...
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  • / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language. It is...
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  • ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. German orthography is the orthography used in writing the German language, which is largely phonemic...
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  • Ø (category Articles containing Faroese-language text)
    Ø (or minuscule: ø) is a letter used in the Danish, Norwegian, Faroese, and Southern Sámi languages. It is mostly used as to represent the mid front rounded...
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    Á (section Faroese)
    (a-acute) is a letter of the Chinese (Pinyin), Blackfoot, Czech, Dutch, Faroese, Filipino, Galician, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Lakota, Navajo, Occitan...
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    based on Jan Hus's Czech alphabet and was meant to serve as a unified orthography for three Croat-populated kingdoms within the Austrian Empire at the...
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  • 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...
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  • / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. English orthography is the writing system used to represent spoken English, allowing readers...
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    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'...
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  • Dutch orthography uses the Latin alphabet. The spelling system is issued by government decree and is compulsory for all government documentation and educational...
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    Ó (section Faroese)
    Ó, ó (o-acute) is a letter in the Czech, Emilian-Romagnol, Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, Kashubian, Polish, Slovak, Karakalpak, and Sorbian languages...
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  • 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...
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  • Italian orthography (the conventions used in writing Italian) uses 21 letters of the 26-letter Latin alphabet to write the Italian language. This article...
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  • see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. The modern Latvian orthography is based on Latin script adapted to phonetic principles, following the...
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  • Czech orthography is a system of rules for proper formal writing (orthography) in Czech. The earliest form of separate Latin script specifically designed...
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  • Estonian orthography is the system used for writing the Estonian language and is based on the Latin alphabet. The Estonian orthography is generally guided...
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  • List of Latin-script digraphs (category Articles containing Faroese-language text)
    Esperanto orthography, it is an official surrogate of ⟨ĥ⟩, which represents /x/. ⟨hj⟩ is used in the Italian dialect of Albanian for /xʲ/. In Faroese, it represents...
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    thought to have been mutually intelligible with Faroese. Until the 15th century, Faroese had a similar orthography to Icelandic and Norwegian, but after the...
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    letter. Ukrainian orthography is based on the phonemic principle, with one letter generally corresponding to one phoneme. The orthography also has cases...
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