Faroese (pronounces as /?f??ro??i?z/ or /?f?ro??i?z/) is the mother tongue for over 70 thousand people, mostly concentrated on the Faroe Islands and Denmark. Just as Icelandic (see our entry), it is a Germanic language derived from Old Norse. A bit of history Old Norse was still the language on the Islands at the beginning of the 10th century. However, the influx of Irish, Orkney and Shetland settlers in the coming years began to affect the language. Even contemporary Faroese has a significant number of words that have a clear Celtic origin. At the end of 14th century, it stopped being a written language as a result of a union with Denmark. For almost 300 years, Faroese was used only in its spoken forms in arts and daily interactions. The first decades of 19th century brought a change as first publications with Faroese started to appear. The first one was the
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Read more →HTML-related projects for translation and proofreading companies refer to handling website content. There are a few rules that need to be followed while handling HTML files, but it?s not scary! We summarised our experience with such projects in two basic points. What can be translated or proofread in HTML projects HTML is generally understood as tags between angle brackets (e.g. <tag>). They often occur in pairs, so we have an opening tag <p> and a closing tag </p>. We can modify whatever is between them, but should not change the content of the tags ? any alteration may distort the entire website layout. Sometimes the text needs to be reordered to match the specificity of a language ? this may involve moving the tags as well. You need to be sure that the same words are surrounded by marker tags. What cannot be translated or proofread in HTML projects Some tags
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