Uploaded June 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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The Faroese language - føroyskt mál - is a North Germanic language spoken as a first language by about 72,000 Faroe Islanders, around 53,000 of whom reside on the Faroe Islands and 23,000 in other areas, mainly Denmark. In this video we explore how mutually intelligible Faroese language is with other Germanic languages - Danish, Norwegian and Swedish. Can you understand anything?

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📝 The participants:

🇫🇴 Johan - a Faroese speaker living in Faroe Island;
🇩🇰 Michael - an Ecolinguist subscriber from Denmark;
🇸🇪🎥 Gustaf - sound engineer and YouTuber from Scania, Sweden → @Maaga Duppy
🇳🇴 Åsmund - a teacher from Norway
Big thanks to Åsmund for the help with fixing the audio. 🤗


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