Faroese orthography

Alphabet

• Eth never appears at the beginning of a word, which means its majuscule form, rarely occurs except in situations where all-capital letters are used, such as on maps.
• can also be written in poetic language, such as Föroyar. This has to do with different orthographic traditions (Danish-Norwegian for and Icelandic for. Originally, both forms were used, depending on the historical form of the word; was used when the vowel resulted from I-mutation of while was used when the vowel resulted from U-mutation of. In handwriting, is sometimes used.
• While,,,, and are not found in the Faroese language, was known in earlier versions of Hammershaimb's orthography, such as for Saksun.
• While the Faroese keyboard layout allows one to write in Latin, English, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, etc., the Old Norse and Modern Icelandic letter is missing. In related Faroese words, it is written as either or. If an Icelandic name has to be transcribed, is common.

  Spelling system

Glide insertion

1. vowel + ð + vowel
2. vowel + g + vowel
3. vowel + vowel

2. * "I-surrounding, type 1" – after : bíða , deyður , seyður
3. * "I-surrounding, type 2" – between any vowel and : kvæði , øði .
5. * "U-surrounding, type 1" – after : s always have : elskaðar
6. Silent
7. * "A-surrounding, type 1" – between and and in some words between and : ráða , gleða , boða , kvøða , røða''