"Copenhagen" 🇩🇰 in Nordic languages

🇫🇴 Keypmannahavn (f)
🇩🇰 København
🇬🇱 København
🇳🇴 København
🇫🇮 Kööpenhamina
🇸🇪 Köpenhamn (n)

#langsky #Faroese #Danish #Greenlandic #Kalaallisut #Norwegian #Finnish #Swedish

A photo of a common seal. Illustrating descriptions of tales of metamorphising witches and selkies.

Attending the @insuhi.bsky.social online seminar on #Faroese and #Shetlandic #Folklore.

Institute for Northern Studies - Public events and seminars - Islands Matter Public Seminar - Faroese & Shetlandic Folklore Seminars and Events at the Institute for Northern Studies

Islands Matter: #Faroese & #Shetlandic #Folklore
26 Feb, free online via @insuhi.bsky.social

Prof Jóan Pauli Joensen: “Water Beings in Faroese Folklore – Tradition & Change” & Prof Andrew Jennings: “From Fetlar to Foula – Norse Roots of Shetland Folklore”
www.uhi.ac.uk/en/research-...

Berlin, Týskland

#Faroese word for #Germany is #Týskland. It derives from Old High German work #diutisc (of or pertaining to the people or tribe). In #OldNorse it became þýðskr/þjóðskr and later formed #Tyskland in Scandinavian languages.

#føroyskt #WordOfTheDay

An impressive growth story for the #Faroese #Wikipedia. From a stub in June 2004 to over 14,000 articles created since. A great achievement for such a small #language!.

@wikipedia.org

Print and CD bundle: The Tale of the Sealwoman + Elsewhere, Elsewhen CD from Nordic Viola Print and CD bundle: The Tale of the Sealwoman + Elsewhere, Elsewhen CD from Nordic Viola

It's #bandcampfriday! We have a special bundle offer on today: buy our fabulous new art print by Orla Stevens inspired by #faroese composer Eli tausen á Lava's music and you can get our CD for just £5 more - that's less than half price. nordicviola.bandcamp.com/merch/print-...

One of #EUROPE 's strictest #abortion laws is history. The #Faroese parliament voted on Thursday with a narrow majority to allow free abortion up to the twelfth week.

The vote was passed with 17 to 16 votes, writes broadcaster Kringvarp Føroya .
TV2
📸AP
#Faroe Islands

Calling all #Faroese: #Human #society is structured based on #compassion & #kindness among many virtues. Present day society is not founded on abusing power to terrorise & exploit the vulnerable. Please stop terrorising & killing #PilotWhales. Thank you
#dolphinangels

Last week I talked about literary depictions of #Fish-Processing and #Mothering in #Faroese novels at #Umeå University – what a great opportunity to talk about my project with a diverse group of scholars. I really enjoyed my time in northern Sweden despite the early darkness this time of the year.

Nordic Council Prizes to Faroese Literature and Film This year's Nordic Council literature prize has been awarded to the Faroese writer Vónbjørt Vang for the poetry collection Svørt orkidé. The council's film prize was also awarded to a Faroese producti...

This year's #NordicCouncil #literature #prize has been awarded to #Faroese writer Vónbjørt Vang for the poetry collection Svørt orkidé. "To me, this is not merely a recognition of a book, but of a language and of a life," says Vang.

#FaroeIslands #Nordic #HighNorth

Adapting Small LLMs to Faroese via Language Transfer and Merging

LoRA fine‑tuning improves Faroese linguistic acceptability, while full fine‑tuning gives higher comprehension; Icelandic pre‑training boosts accuracy, Danish pre‑training aids comprehension. Read more: getnews.me/adapting-small-llms-to-f... #faroese #llm

Chart showing Wikidata album languages with the most growth. Week 30, 2025.

Week 30, 2025: What @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social album languages grew the most this week?

The Faroe islanders just beat the Egyptians and everyone else. 🥇🇫🇴🎉

📊 #Wikidata 🎶🎵 #ExMusica

#FøroysktMál #Faroese

Chart showing Wikidata album languages with the most growth. Week 30, 2025.

Week 30, 2025: What @wikidata@wikis.world album languages grew the most this week?

So maybe they didn't build the pyramids after all, but the Faroe islanders just beat the Egyptians and everyone else. 🥇🇫🇴🎉

📊 #Wikidata 🎶🎵 #ExMusica @wikidata@a.gup.pe

#Faroese #FøroysktMál

1N5817

#1N5817 Schottky Barrier Rectifying #Diode is one of many #semiconductors powering modern #technology.

#Faroese word for it is #hálvleiðari (#hálv - half-way + #leiðari - conductor), while #electrode is called #kleiv - a word that originally meant a "narrow cleft".

#føroyskt #WordOfTheDay

While most #European #languages have quite a similar #word for #mathematics, #Faroese just has to be an exception with the word #støddfrøði 🙂 Together with #Icelandic #stærðfræði...

The noun comes from the words #stødd (quantity, dimensions) and #frøði (science, -ology).

#føroyskt #WordOfTheDay

The #Faroese word for #ivy is #viðbendil. It literally means something that bends and twists (#benda) towards (#við) / in a certain direction

While #Hedera helix is not found naturally on the #FaroeIslands, it can be bought at local garden centres.

#føroyskt #flora #WordOfTheDay

klistrimerki

#Faroese word for #sticker is #klistrimerki. It literally means "sticky sign" (at #klistra - to stick + #merki = sign).

#føroyskt #WordOfTheDay @farerskiekadry.pl

English #Wikipedia's "{{Citation needed}}" has its #Faroese counterpart - "{{ #Kelda vantar}}" (literally "lack of sources").

Always check your #sources.

#føroyskt #Faroese @wikipedia.org

🎧 Eivør - Upp Úr Øskuni
#musicsky #nowlistening #faroese #goth #darkwave #artpop

Today is #MotherLanguageDay in the #FaroeIslands.

25. March is V. U. Hamm­er­s­haimbs birthday - a frontrunner who fought for the Faroese written language.

Our #Faroese #language has been threatened, but today it is strong & spoken by 70-80,000 people.

Góðan Móðurmálsdag! 🇫🇴

Faroese Phonetics and Phonology Faroese Phonetics and Phonology fills the need for a precise and thorough analysis of the Faroese language. It provides a comprehensive overview of Faroese phonology, covering standard language, diale...

✨ Fresh off the press ✨

Interested in #Faroese #phonetics & #phonology? This book covers the #standard #language, #dialectal variation, and #historical change from Old Norse to modern Faroese through precise phonetic descriptions and formal phonological analyses.

www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

Rock wall at Syðradalur, Streymoy

Steep #mountains - that dominate #FaroeIslands #landscape - are of volcanic origin. Dark layers of #basalt alternate with the softer layers of reddish #tuff - stone made up of #volcanic ashes.

These steep mountainsides are called #hamar (rocky wall).

#føroyskt #Faroese #WordOfTheDay #Syðradalur