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[~jakip]

~jakip, try checking out the Unilang wiki. I posted a lot of stuff about the grammar a few years ago. You should definitely find something useful there.

Ok, thanks! I'll check! Thanks for your time!

[September]

Hello:

I am a bit confused with regards to the Faroese alphabet. In books, the letters a and æ are written out as "fyrra a" and "seinna æ", respectively. However, I have now heard some audio (from Jonathan Adams and Hjalmar Peterson's "Faroese: A Language Course for Beginners"), and the speaker who recites the alphabet gives these two letters as [a] and [ɛa] (the short and long sounds). When reciting the alphabet or spelling something, would one normally say "fyrra a" for a, or just use the short a sound?

[Mulder-21]

The fyrra a vs. seinna a is based on the phoneme the letters represent in native Faroese words, which is /ɛa/, but for a long time <a> has been called [a] in Faroese. I can only explain this as a islandism or a germanism, but it's definitely not an anglicism or a danicism (where the letter is called [ɛ]). From an official standpoint it's recommended to use the fyrra/seinna. Colloquially a is called [a] and æ [ɛa], which maybe is kinda weird when words like hav, far etc. all have <a> as [ɛa].

[NorthOfNowhere]

Góðan dag! Hvussu gongur?
Eg hari ein spurning um framburðin av orðinum "eggið".

I have a question regarding the pronunciation-orthography correlation in Faroese; I have read that the noun "egg" is pronounced [ɛk:]. I was wondering if it, in its inflected form "eggið", is pronounced ['ɛdʒ:ɪ] or ['ɛk:ɪ]? Since the "g" is followed by an "i" wouldn't it be pronounced as [dʒ], e.g. "gina"?

Note: please correct my Faroese

[Mulder-21]

*havi but all else is fine

Yes, the -gg in egg does become soft when definite. The gi- has a lot of exceptions though, although the definite article is never one of them.