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Technical information about ISO 639 language code fo
The table below provides technical details for the Faroese language, designated by the fo
code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
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.
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Faroese speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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