Language code: fo
Technical information about ISO 639 language code fo
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The table below provides technical details for the Faroese language, designated by the fo code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
|
| Standard | |
| Name | Official Faroese Native Føroyskt |
| Family | Germanic |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | Northern dialectCentral dialectWestern dialectSouthern dialect |
| Related languages | IcelandicNorwegian (Nynorsk)Danish |
| Key facts | Retains four grammatical cases and three gendersOrthography mirrors Old Norse spelling and includes the silent letter ðContains around 28 distinct diphthongs, giving it a rich vowel systemAbout 50,000 native speakers, making it one of the smallest living Germanic languagesTraditional ballads (kvæði) are still sung in chain-dance, preserving medieval stories |
| Sample phrase | Hallo, hvussu hevur tú tað? |
| Character encodings | |
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Faroese belongs to the Indo-European language family, more specifically to the Germanic subgroup. It is the official language of the Faroe Islands and is also spoken by some communities in Denmark. It is written using the Latin script (Faroese alphabet). It is estimated that there are more than 69,000 speakers worldwide.
Language presence globally
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Faroese speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ