Relating to the Faroe Islands, their people, language, or culture.
Derived from Faeroe with the English suffix -ese (used to denote nationality or origin). The base word comes from Old Norse 'Færeyjar' meaning 'sheep islands.'
Faroese is a North Germanic language with about 72,000 speakers, and it's one of the few minority languages that's actually growing in speaker population—young Faroese people are learning it and keeping it alive against the pressure of larger languages.
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