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THE FAROE ISLANDS.—The Faroe or Sheep Islands, lying half-way between Iceland and the Shetlancls, are inhabited by people of Norwegian descent. In these islands an energetic linguistic movement has recently arisen, aiming at elevating the local idiom to the rank of a language, a movement which is not political, but suggested by the declaration in 1918 of the independence of Iceland. Mr. J. Dyneley Price, in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (vol. lxi. No. 2, 1922), describes the linguistics and phonetics on information furnished by Miss?.?. Mikkelsen, a Faroese lady now resident in Copenhagen. It is curious that this movement extends to a new form of spelling which, like the stereotyped archaic spelling of modern Gaelic, ignores the modern phonetics of the spoken dialects.
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Research Items. Nature 111, 198–199 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111198a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/111198a0