FAROE ISLANDS
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Cities in FAROE ISLANDS
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The differences and similarities between Faroese, Icelandic and Danish are sometimes remarkable:
Good morning - Góðan morgun - Góðan daginn - God morning
Thank you - Takk fyri - Takk fyrir - tak
Pardon - Orsaka - afsakið - undskyld
Bus - bussur - rúta - buses
Plane - flogfar - flugvél - flyet
Restaurant - matstova - veitingahús - restaurant
Beach - strond - strönd - beach
Bread - breyð - brauð - brød
Sugar - sukur - sykur - sukker
Meat - kjøt - kød
Saturday - leygardagur - laugardagur - lørdag
Sunday - sunnudagur - søndag
One - eitt - einn - en
Two - tvey - tveir - to
Three - trý - þrír - tre
One hundred - hundrað - hundred
One thousand - túsund - þúsund - tusin
Sources
Cornwallis, G. / Iceland, Greenland & the Faroe Islands
Lonely Planet
CIA - World Factbook
BBC - Country Profiles
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