Faroese Language

[@Davidsbeenhere]

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[@fmeinhardsson]

we don't have c in our alphabet

[@teamkj6240]

AM Are from faros Island

[@williamhutchinson4238]

no

[@jimi4906]

I’m fascinated with the Faroe Islands and plan to travel there when this madness ends ( Writing this in 2020 ) I’m looking at learning a new language Norwegian or Danish. What language is similar to Faroese. Thanks for any advice.

[@მემარივარ]

@@jimi4906 Icelandic.

[@MrVaageHoivik]

I'm Norwegian and I understood basically everything.

[@1946FreddieMercury]

My taughts exactly, especially the months are pretty much identical, just sound like they have a heavy accent.

[@rice8]

same here (i'm a swede)

[@SamuelJamalPope]

Same here (English bit can understand Norwegian)

[@carthag]

ya the swadesh words are usually easy to understand (what a surprise!). im surprised that this asshole went to the faroe islands just to get a guy to say a bunch of words on camera (and also get fucked up or whatever else he spends his time on).

[@krunchski9852]

hvordan har du det -Norskt hvussu gongur - Føroyskt Kanska.

[@crunchygaming1561]

It sounds like when a englishman tries to talk Swedish

[@zarty1065]

true

[@martinpetersson4350]

Haha actually does!

[@juliapetersson1]

Basically yes

[@dan74695]

Sounds more like Norwegian.

[@Gkvhkbt]

True...native speaker here.

[@Jack_Ragnarsson]

It's like hes speaking a Scandinavian language in an Irish accent. Super cool!!

[@FrozenMermaid666]

Faroese / Gothic / Norse / Greenlandic Norse / East Norse and Breton / Manx / Cornish and Pretarolo / Guernsey / Sardinian / Aranese / Friulian / Occitan / Gallo etc need to be added to Google translate and to all those apps such as Duolingo, and more ppl should teach them on yt because it’s not easy to find resources and yt videos to learn vocab and grammar etc, so I started learning them by memorizing lyrics!

[@FrozenMermaid666]

By the way, my current levels are... - intermediate level in Old Norse / Icelandic / Welsh - writer level in English + native speaker level in Spanish - upper advanced level in Dutch + advanced level in Norwegian - mid intermediate level in German / Swedish / Portuguese / French / Italian - beginner level in Breton / Hungarian / Gothic / Latin / Faroese / Galician / Danish / Slovene - total beginner in Cornish / Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic / Aranese / Elfdalian / Gallo / Limburgish / Occitan / Luxembourgish / Catalan / East Norse / Ripuarian / Swiss German / Alemanic / Austrian German / PlatDeitsch / Greenlandic Norse / Friulian / Pretarolo / Sardinian / Neapolitan / Sicilian / Venetian / Esperanto / Walloon / Ladin / Guernsey / Norn / Burgundian / West Frisian / North Frisian / East Frisian / Yiddish / Afrikaans / Finnish / Latvian / Estonian etc (and the other languages based on Dutch / German / Norwegian / Italian / French that are referred to as ‘dialects’ but are usually a different language with different spelling etc) (I highly recommend learning Dutch / Icelandic + Norse + Faroese / Norwegian as they are so magical, as pretty / refined / poetic as English - all other Germanic and the other pretty languages on my list are also gorgeous, so they are all a great option!)

[@amanwithaplaninavan]

@FrozenMermaid666 man who gives a shit?

[@CarpetHater]

@@FrozenMermaid666 most of those are dead languages and have very very few writen records, so no, not all of these. however, breton, cornish, sardinian and faroese should be on google translate, especially since they are alive and still in use, i would love a faroese course on duolingo.

[@dan74695]

It sounds very similar to northern and western Norwegian. Northern Norwegian and Faroese both came from western Norway. Icelandic did too.

[@brandarheinsson2877]

the faroese alphabet goes "A Á B D Ð E F G H I Í J K L M N O Ó P R S T U Ú V Y Ý Æ Ø Ei Ey Oy" - not A B C etc...

[@eagletsnupper7876]

"Ay ay bee dee dee ee eff jee aytch eye eye jay kay ell em en oh oh pee arr ess tee eu eu vee why why ayee ohh ayee ayee oi!" - An American

[@hanusalogv3789]

Brandar Heðinsson yes I live there and ur right lol

[@elsiedjurhuus]

@@hanusalogv3789 u right i live in leirvík

[@volund6280]

How is the life in Faroes ?

[@MagnusMoerkoereJohannesen]

@@eagletsnupper7876 Well, you got pronunciation of the last three right :D

[@SheikMMO]

im from sweden and i have an easier time to understand most of what he's saying than i do understand danish

[@Tryambakam108]

"Please take the potatoes out of your mouth and speak again."

[@ReverendPop]

Ha ha ha nobody understand Danish

[@saxhaug]

Not even the danes understand Danish.

[@Casper-hp6yq]

It is a little ironic, because swedish, norwegian, icelandic, and faroese, comes mostly from Denmark, yes I do know that Denmark got it from germany.

[@cius96]

@@Casper-hp6yq actually all the germanic languages come from proto-germanic, which was spoken in the area between Denmark and southern Sweden. So nope, Denmark didn't get it from Germany but it's the other way around, some germanic tribes moved to the south towards Germany (which back then didn't wxist obiouvsly). And Proto-Norse was the first germanic language to evolve from proto-germanic (together with Gothic, which at the very beginning was written with runes aswell, before Wulfila created the gothic alphabet). Old high german appeared 600 years later, when Gothic was extinct and proto norse already evolved into old norse, which was already divided in eastern and western.

[@jfm.1]

Im a native english speaker, and i’ve been learning swedish/norwegian for a few months and I could understand almost everything

[@johndrama5053]

Our languages stems from the same proto-germanic language so we have an easier time figureing it out. 👊😁

[@arnijonsson8651]

Lots of love from Iceland( your north-Atlantic island brothers)

[@charlesmichaelschmitt6412]

Wow! I am American from N.J. and surprisingly find this language so far to sound calming and it's tonality beautiful, I also lived in Germany for 20 years and speak Hochdeutsch and know old English.

[@TingTingalingy]

Old English, ay? How did you learn it? I had a teacher that spoke very rough old English

[@aleksanderh.5407]

Much of Scandinavia has "singing" dialects

[@AbbeRustMojo]

really cool language! I'm swedish and it sounds familier in a way but still very different

[@kamillastaunsbjerg8322]

AbbeAlbin Yea same in Danish

[@playplaygamer1483]

cool i talk faroe ish and i talk danish

[@OLFGaming]

Din Mor

[@niklashansen7342]

Og din far

[@haardkaar]

I spoke to a Faroese couple in Spain, they tried their best "danish". I didn't realise they were from the Faroe Islands. Sounded like whispering Swedish. The vowel sounds are very close to standard Swedish.

[@sognsvann3]

It sound like the dialect they speak in the county Sogn og Fjordane here in norway.

[@asbjrnpoulsen9205]

old vest norse

[@lolghost7099]

I'm Dutch and some of the words I could understand perfectly. It's so fun to see these similarities between languages

[@carstenaltena]

The months! Inderdaad.

[@amarillo1525]

Yo hablo español nativamente, aunque esten muy lejos las feroes, igual entiendo algunas palabras como Familia (family in english)

[@amarillo1525]

I undertand some words

[@FrozenMermaid666]

Dutch has tons of cognates with Icelandic / Norse / Faroese etc - I am learning all these pretty languages, and I see so many words that are still similar to the Dutch word! Faroese / Gothic / Norse / Greenlandic Norse / East Norse and Breton / Manx / Cornish and Pretarolo / Guernsey / Sardinian / Aranese / Friulian / Occitan / Gallo etc need to be added to Google translate and to all those apps such as Duolingo, and more ppl should teach them on yt because it’s not easy to find resources and yt videos to learn vocab and grammar etc, so I started learning them by memorizing lyrics!

[@FrozenMermaid666]

By the way, my current levels are... - intermediate level in Old Norse / Icelandic / Welsh - writer level in English + native speaker level in Spanish - upper advanced level in Dutch + advanced level in Norwegian - mid intermediate level in German / Swedish / Portuguese / French / Italian - beginner level in Breton / Hungarian / Gothic / Latin / Faroese / Galician / Danish / Slovene - total beginner in Cornish / Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic / Aranese / Elfdalian / Gallo / Limburgish / Occitan / Luxembourgish / Catalan / East Norse / Ripuarian / Swiss German / Alemanic / Austrian German / PlatDeitsch / Greenlandic Norse / Friulian / Pretarolo / Sardinian / Neapolitan / Sicilian / Venetian / Esperanto / Walloon / Ladin / Guernsey / Norn / Burgundian / West Frisian / North Frisian / East Frisian / Yiddish / Afrikaans / Finnish / Latvian / Estonian etc (and the other languages based on Dutch / German / Norwegian / Italian / French that are referred to as ‘dialects’ but are usually a different language with different spelling etc) (I highly recommend learning Dutch / Icelandic + Norse + Faroese / Norwegian as they are so magical, as pretty / refined / poetic as English - all other Germanic and the other pretty languages on my list are also gorgeous, so they are all a great option!)

[@silje8711]

I'm from northern norway and I have to laugh because the pronunciation sounds just like my grandma with the r's especially.

[@dan74695]

Ja, det læt som breid nordnorsk.

[@Chrillo]

Sounds like a mix of Irish, Icelandic and the swedish accent from Gotland.

[@puropsychobilly3995]

I even heard some Spanish words in there....one being familia or family

[@liljar.6284]

It sounds like a really drunken Icelandic👍

[@MrMafiks]

Wow this was easy to understand-from Norway

[@zarty1065]

I'm Swedish and I nearly understood everything! :D

[@skakpedersen]

It’s a beautiful language and because of John, my wife and I have decided: “Next stop Torshavn”. Thanks for sharing [shake]

[@luizsilveiramc]

It's related to Icelandic. 😃 E.g.: "Thank you" sounds like the Icelandic sentence "Takk fyrir".

[@Unknown-bi7wf]

Icelandic and faroese have a common origin, they are very different.

[@Zeagods-CyberShadow]

Í líka máta

[@nordlandskaka]

I'm Western Norwegian, and find Faroese surprisingly understandable - more so than Icelandic, interestingly. Biggest difference is that the "r"s are pronounced in a way that makes them sounds like a speech impediment (from a Norwegian perspective).

[@aleksanderh.5407]

R-en på færøysk e som i Tromsødialekt og i Vesterålen. Pluss gammel gutniska på Gotland

[@user-B_8]

I'm Southern Norwegian and I completely agree with you on that. I too find faroese way more easy to understand than Icelandic. 👍

[@dan74695]

@@aleksanderh.5407 Det r-ljodet er vanlegt andre stader og, som Vesterålen, Senja og Ofoten.

[@dan74695]

His r's sound North Norwegian.

[@markus9641]

Im swedish and I understood almost all he said. Its very very cool.

[@sydneym4527]

I’m an English speaker and I understand a bit of Norwegian and I almost completely understood him!!!! Very cool!!!!

[@johnbush5325]

I'm a American English speaker and not bilingual at all, and I could sort of understand some of those words vagely. Fascinating.

[@sebvincent5017]

i’m icelandic and it sounded alot like icelandic, almost exactly the same hehe

[@terceldude]

Therefore I wanna say "DUH" to the people saying it only looks similar to Icelandic in written form and similar to Norwegian in spoken form. I wanna say DUH to them that THEY WERE WRONG ALL ALONG!

[@terceldude]

BTW, I love Iceland and hope to come back! :) I would love to visit: Ísafjörður, , Hvalfjörður and Borgarfjörður in Western Iceland, not necessarily Borgarfjörður Eystra lol ;)

[@wuwmfrs]

@@terceldude Then I wanna say DUH to you, haha! Icelandic is literally a modern Old Norse, close to identical with old age norwegian, which is the actual original Norwegian language kept mostly by the norwegians and other scandinavians who settled the island. Many people fled there to avoid arbsurd high taxes or death because of for instance Óláfr hinn helgi (king Olav the Holy) for believing in the old gods and not christ. Icelanders are trueblood norwegians mixed with selection of celtic women, and considering the 100 different dialects we have all over Norway, some of the isolated ones almost Old Norse/Icelandic, others very similar, I would say it is VERY VERY similar to Norwegian/Swedish/Danish; words, grammar, etc. Most Scandinavians with a skilled ear or maybe even any average person could communicate, quickly pick up and learn Icelandic/Faroese super fast with minor practice. :) Quick fast but not very detailed history lesson for you. Skál!

[@terceldude]

@@wuwmfrs Can I trade the jerks of my country for cool people like you? :)

[@wuwmfrs]

@@terceldude Haha, where are you from?

[@wuwmfrs]

Norse/Old Norwegian and the variants spoken across Scandinavia back in the days(not entirely how they developed but still) can be seen as the father of Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish. Take the crazy amount of Norwegian and Swedish dialects to consideration. No shit they sound similar and many close to the same! The grammar between them is almost untouched. This is so interesting! :D

[@simonolthenorwegian]

Faroese is actually really close to my norwegian dialect. They share a lot of grammar, vocabulary and small quirks.

[@wutdehek.3505]

i live in the faroe island i live in strendur

[@emilias.m8075]

wow, the first six letters from faroese alphabet have almost the same sound from portuguese alphabet.

[@cristina_em]

Yea. I noticed this too, and the months.

[@Julia-ms3td]

the one he said in the video is not the faroese alphabets though. It's just the danish one, but the letters are said in faroese.

[@ErickTosar]

Same for spanish! most of them, that's because it is still an indoeuropean lenguage!

[@bree5609]

How cool! Thank you for sharing!

[@carstenaltena]

Fascinating. The pronunciation of words for months are almost exactly the same as in Dutch.

[@dan74695]

It sounds a bit like a very thick northern Norwegian accent.

[@carstenaltena]

@@dan74695 To me, Norwegian can sound a lot like (rural) Dutch.

[@jercool]

Häftigt! Väldigt många ord är precis precis som svenska.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@Darvit_Nu]

I'm learning old norse & he is very easy to understand 😊❤ Norwegians always ask if I'm speaking or writing Nyorsk because they understand most of what I say or write. Languages & cultures are so cool ... I love learning about other people & listening to archeologists about ancient finds.

[@jeabo0adhd]

If reminds of me of Old English. I can understand most of the vocabulary. Modern English has, indeed, broken away from its North and West Germanic cousins.

[@Fry09294]

No it hasn’t, what are you talking about?

[@linajurgensen4698]

It sounds like some English speaker tries to speak Icelandic or Swedish while gargling water...

[@ecMonify]

it fascinates me how similar faroese sounds to the swedish accent spoken on the island of gotland, especially since that accent is so different to any other scandinavian accent (at least as far as i know). anyways, here's hoping they finally add faroese to google translate so i can translate all of those Týr songs! :P

[@stoffni]

This is crazy! As a Swede I totally understand it all. I wasnt aware of how similar Faroese sounded. That is sooo cool!

[@Santos.Sarmento]

Super! Thanks for sharing.

[@BoynamedMagnus183]

I love faroese this is so similar to west norwegian dialect and Nynorsk that we just written in Norway This heards like when a Icelander tries to speak Nynorsk

[@SKEPGFX]

I speak Swedish and I can say I pretty much understood all of that. Days were a bit funny as were a few numbers but made complete sense lol

[@espo5596]

I speak Icelandic and I was able to understand the Majority of what was being said

[@Havvyer]

I understood some of the words I know from Swedish. 😊

[@annliisajulia7885]

Just found out I have ancestry related to the people of Faroes island. There’s so much I don’t know and I’m so interested.

[@oreykristin703]

This just sounded like an English guy trying to speak Icelandic cuz I swear I understood every single word he said😂

[@ulfurkarlsson5885]

Some of it reminds me of Icelandic, i usually understand it better when written for some reason though. The dialect is very diffrent from Icelandic.

[@ulfurkarlsson5885]

@@Unknown-bi7wf i know

[@rykkardtrappapipar7355]

Very quick! It's similar to the Icelandic and the proto-germanic family. But a little bit hard to learn!

[@juanaraujo402]

I am Mexican and I anderstood some words due to its cognitivism with other languages. Best regards

[@avabeanwater3749]

In what way is faroese related to irish, other than them both being indo-european

[@nicolas94h]

I believe celtic influenced the faroese language or the other way around

[@nathalia5866]

yakityjak From what I've seen other comment, Irish monks colonized Faroe Islands and then Vikings took it

[@brandarheinsson2877]

Irish munks used to live on the islands; but that's not the reason. Evidence shows that the Faroese "landnám" (To touch land i.e the settlement) took place as early as 2900 B.C. Some evidence support an even earlier settlement 3900. B.C but that is highly unlikely, and the evidence found can be explained otherwise. Through out the first centuries, and in particular between 825 and 1000 A.C. many celts would come to live on the islands. Some immigrated, the most famous one being Grímur Kamban - according to Faroe saga, a norseman, but he was probably from Isle of Man or from the Orkneys. Women were often stolen from Ireland and Scotland by the faroese vikings, and they stayed on the islands as wifes of the faroese men. So through immigration and viking plunder, the Celtic languages were introduced to the faroese language, and it shaped the language to this very day - kinda like french and english. Examples of faroese words with a celtic origin are : Ærgi, blak, dímun, drunnur, grúkur, lámur and tarvur etc... Some places on the islands also bear witness to the influence of Celtic language fx. Argir (from the word Ærgi), Stóra and Líttla Dímun, Mykines etc... So there you have it. Immigration (not settlement, but immigration to the already inhabited islands, inhabited by the faroese), viking plunder and perhaps - a likely perhaps, but after all, only a perhaps- trade with the british isles before the shutdown of the islands by the danish colonists around 1380.

[@brandarheinsson2877]

Common belief - but not accurate. The islands had been inhabited for thousands of years before the irish munks, led by St.Brandan, came to the islands. Christianity probably co-existed with other religions for hundreds of years until its forced domination around 1035. Grímur Kamban, one of the alleged vikings to take the faroe islands from the irsh, was a celt himself. The faroe islands were an independent state until 1035, and were finally deprived of its independence in 1380. Vikings lived on the islands, and the islanders were vikings - but the Faroe islands fostered a multicultural society; Christianity, ásatrúgv and probably a proto-germanic nature religion, co-existed on the islands. The past of the otherwise very homogeneous islands is surprisingly nuanced. So, there you go.

[@asbjrnpoulsen9205]

the first viking ther settled was half norse half irish named grímur norse kamban celtic

[@Lauratayloradams]

Very cool, thank you.

[@tammylain7754]

a lot like Danish, but they are also a part of Scandinavia- they learn Danish in school and go to university here.. just like in Greenland and sometimes Iceland....

[@TokageSan]

That sounds very similar to Norwegian and Swedish

[@jimi4906]

I’m fascinated with the Faroe Islands and plan to travel there when this madness ends ( Writing this in 2020 ) I’m looking at learning a new language Norwegian or Danish. What language is similar to Faroese. Thanks for any advice.

[@Rimrock300]

They understand Danish well as they learn it at school. Offical written Norwegian (bokmål) is very close to Danish, but different accents. Possible Norvegian can be more easy to learn for a foreginer that knows english well foreginer, as it's more 'straight forward' with the sounds used when talking, while Danish more use some special sounds in their accent. Anyway, you can have a look at both) The Faroese language is different from Norwegian (bokmål) and Danish, more 'old style' and harder to learn. It's kind of a mix between Icelandic and some west coast Norwegian accents (which again is quite different from the more modern offical written Norwegian, bokmål. (There were/are so many different accents in Norway, they did gav up on finding a mutual written language based on those, just made it simple and imported Danish as the official writing, and made some local adjustments naturally. Or more correctly, Denmark made the decition to take their language to Norway, as they ruled the country for some centuries back in the old days)

[@anna-mariejkristensen5624]

I am from Greenland and i am surprised cuz i understood most of the words

[@wilmotown]

I just spent a few months in Denmark (among other things) learning Danish, and let me tell you this autonomous kingdom’s language is WAY closer to Danish than Denmark’s other autonomous kingdom’s language is.

[@martinh1309]

🥱🥱🥱 Because the Faroe Islands alongside Greenland and Iceland etc were norwegian possessions which Denmark stole.

[@sveinbjarturorjonsson9018]

For me it sounds like Icelandic with a danish accent made a child with Irish. Dicerish

[@queensabina9983]

OMG love how it sounds it is so close to swedish, but still you can hear the icelandic in Farose

[@thebuccaneersden]

What part of anything that he said sounded Irish in any way? It just sounds like a norse smorgasbord of a dialect (a mix of Danish, Swedish and Norwegian). Where's the Irish-ness? I don't get it.

[@Rimrock300]

There are irish-ness to some name of places in the islands, and some few words from what I understand. But here they are just saying some basic nordic words and sentences. It was mainly Norwegian men, picking up women in ireland and scotland that settled Faroe Island, and some irish munks were already at the island when the vikings showed up

[@dan74695]

@@Rimrock300 It just sounds like Norwegian with a tiny bit of Icelandic.

[@lebasi9005]

Thanks! It's hard to found videos, I speak spanish, and no existe spanish - faroese 😓

[@dan74695]

I have a Faroese playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLqiZ-ikph3Mmlq3EZpBtiRAayoO627VY3&si=fc2rOwgV6IldcnMJ

[@lebasi9005]

Thanks! @@dan74695

[@Francescomonti60]

Hi guys, I have a question. Which is closer to ancient Norse: Faroese or Icelandic? I'm very curious, thanks.

[@Rimrock300]

Icelandic. Faroese and Icelandic got pretty similar grammar and writing, but at Iceland they prononuce they language closer to old Norse. Faroese sounds a bit closer to Norwegian west coast accents while Icelandic speak more the 'old school' way. I think of Faroese like 'Icelandic Light' ;) Also check out 'Gutamål', the old accent of the swedish island of Gotland where they somehow have managed to keep the accent having a old Norse feeling to it.

[@rickdeckard4213]

What a beautiful language. I'm Scottish, but I can make out some of it.

[@trygvelie573]

This is Norwegian with a slight speech impediment. Hello from Oslo!

[@pain-killeryates5448]

I understand a bit of Icelandic and its so similar

[@nickorange4881]

That's cool. So interesting

[@thatflemishdude4034]

Im Flemish and i kinda understand a lot of it

[@SuperTrisset]

Cool, another language i didnt even know i could speak. Im from Sweden.

[@Unknown-bi7wf]

you can't

[@obywatelcane6775]

Is that true that they speak Faroese in Wrong Turn Foundation [2021]?

[@johnbush5325]

When he says "how much does this cost" I could hear "cost" in there

[@Tobi-oi3uf]

Yeah it's because English is also a Germanic language

[@gabrieleroloff1390]

with knowing German and Swedish it is possible to understand a lot he said

[@MistressGlowWorm]

What a beautiful language.

[@reneearce1667]

my first time to hear this type of language, wow

[@dan74695]

It sounds very Norwegian

[@andritgm]

I'm icelandic and it's almost the same

[@Neophema]

Their R is an approximant and not an alveolar tap?

[@JCMH]

Yes; it is like Swedish or Norwegian with an English accent.

[@rebeccagutierrez1401]

I understood a tiny bit of it. I also speak Spanish. Greetings from the carribean island of Puerto Rico.

[@lamarazmoe6438]

Thanks for saying the alphabet so fast

[@belenc.l9773]

I speak german, english, and a bit of norwegian and understood most of it.

[@smartman123]

great video

[@Milo19970]

Sounds very similar to ancient Rotterdamse. Language spoken in a city from the Netherlands thousands of years ago.

[@sirbattlecat]

Wow it's so close to Danish. I thought it'd be closer to Icelandic.

[@jeppahorse]

It's like a mix of west norwegian and northern norwegian. Korr mykje koste dettan? Korr kjæm du ifrå? Those irish-style "R's" are typical for Lofoten.

[@yvonnecampbell7036]

Wauw, after some practice zou ik hem kunnen verstaan xD.

[@Gkvhkbt]

Native swedish speaker here...I understand everything what he said. Sounds like an American speaking swedish. Very thick "r".

[@dan74695]

Det r-ljodet finst i Sverige og, det er vanlegt i Stockholm og på Gotland. Det er vanlegt i Nord-Noreg og.

[@johnbush5325]

When he said goodbye it sounded like "fair well"

[@Johna41223]

I (a swede) just thought this was a mixture of swedish and norwegian and I understood almost everything

[@Rimrock300]

It's mainly a mix between icelandic and west coast norwegian I guess, when one hear the language for real beyond these simple words said here, which is quite understandable by many

[@kebman]

When he said restaurant I heard "mead hall" in Norwegian lol. But I guess he really said "food hall." Correct me if I'm wrong. I suppose mead wouldn't be pronounced very differently anyway.

[@Rimrock300]

Mat-stova, mat-stue) Simple and right to the point, 'food room', it's a cool expression;)

[@hekipeki]

my grandpa had a casual conversation while he spoke icelandic and the other guy spoke faroese, pretty fucking insane

[@dearheart2]

That was very clear. Hvorfor nogen har problemer med at forstå færøisk forstår jeg ikke :)

[@Rimrock300]

Enkle ord og uttrykk som i videoen er å forstå for de fleste med kjennskap til nordiske språk, men vanlig tale er en god del mer utfordrende) De har mange dialekter, noen nokså 'mumlende' mens andre mer 'klar-snakkende')

[@missa2855]

Understood everything. But I also have a large interest in the other Scandinavian languages, so that might have been a little help.

[@Complimentarydust]

I was a little skeptical on how much Gaelige would be in there but there alot of similiarities right there.

[@dan74695]

I don't hear the Irish, I only hear Norwegian and a tiny bit of Icelandic.

[@PogoDarnexx]

As Germany the Month where like 100% the same! And the Alphabet was also like the same but sounded shorter XD But the rest was like totally different.

[@eliasnjetski1146]

That sounds so similar to Swedish in some way.

[@astribreckmann9487]

He's citing the Danish alphabet but pronouncing it in Faroese... The Faroese alphabet is different. But it's not strange that he's saying the Danish one because a lot of us didn't learn to sing the Faroese alphabet in school. I remember we had a poster of the Faroese alphabet but we only learned to sing the Danish one. But it's still sad, that you can't hear the Faroese alphabet in this video.

[@KJ-wh8fv]

I'm German and the month are like in my language. The Northern languages (Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish) are similar. My 7th language is Swedish and my 8th one is Danish. So I can understand the other ones.

[@SK-qe9br]

Numbers sound like 1-10 in Irish, months of the year sound like spanish

[@g.i.g.n105]

I am from iceland i almost understood everything

[@tatib856]

Which song is that in the begining and at the end?

[@Ericsaidful]

Family in this language is clearly of Latin origins as it appears to be "familia" which is Spanish which is obviously derived from Latin. So there is some Roman conquest influence there.

[@Rimrock300]

It's in the Northern Germanic language group. Latin has influenced more or less all/most languages in Europe, no doubt.

[@faramund9865]

Farewell is identical to Dutch "Vaarwel"

[@volund6280]

Germanic languages

[@stellaweihe4111]

I sounds like cracked Danish (psst i am from Denmark, my fathers grandma is from The Faroe Islands)

[@My_Navigator]

i understud a lot of it because im from norway so thats cool

[@MoodMan35]

Yeah right :) Sounds almost the same, what we in Norway say too, but not all that the peoples in the Faroe Islands is saying to each other. We in Norway count en, to, tre, fire, fem, seks, syv, åtte, ni og ti, måned, Januar, februar, mars, april, mai, juni, juli, august, september do I need to go on hehehe :) Icelandic or Faroese is old Danish/Norwgian language :) Yes, I have listen to peoples from the Faroe Islands watching on KZbin, when they are singing Norwegian/Danish folksongs, when they are dancing. I have watched and listening, when peoples from the Faroe Islands is singing about Ormen Lange, which is name of a Norwegian Gas field : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ormen_Lange_(gas_field)

[@MoodMan35]

But it is also Olav Trygvason song about Ormen Lange :) That you will hear in this song sung by peoples from Faroe Islands, when they are dancing : kzbin.info/www/bejne/gafNlXWbobN5kK8

[@MoodMan35]

This videoclip from KZbin I add in my comments is this : Faroe Island folk-dance and singing. This is an english texted version of a video allready on you-tube. It is the ballad (kvad) of Ormen Lange/Ormurin Langi or the long serpent. The greatest viking ship ever built in Norway according to the sagas. It was commisoned by Olaf Trygvason. Please leave comments for corrections of translations if you have any, I will try to fix them. It is translated very directly, so you may follow the original Faroe texting. This is old art, and I believe it is best to understand it in the original language, instead of me thinking of English syntax and sentence construction.

[@darkobubonja]

The months are in Serbian there. No question about that.