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Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb (1819 – 1909) established the modern orthography of Faroese
Faroese language

Faroese , often also spelled Faeroese , is a West Nordic or West Scandinavian language spoken by 48,000 people in the Faroe Islands and about 12,000 Faroese people in Denmark....
, the language of the Faroe Islands
Faroe Islands

The Faroe Islands or Faeroe Islands or simply Faroe or Faeroes are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately half way between Scotland and Iceland....
, in 1854. He was born in Sandavágur
Sandavágur

The town of Sandav?gur lies on the south coast of the Faroe Islands of V?gar, and has been voted the most well-kept village in the Faroes twice....
 on the island of Vagar
Vágar

Vagar is also the old name of Walls, Shetland IslandsV?gar is one of the 18 islands in the archipelago of the Faroe Islands and the most westerly of the large islands....
. He was a parish priest in Kvívík
Kvívík

Kvivik is a village on the west coast of Streymoy in the Faroe Islands.*Population: 367*Postal code : FO 340*Location: ...
 and a rural dean
Rural Dean

In the Anglican Communion and the Roman Catholic Church, a Rural Dean presides over a Rural Deanery ....
 in Nes, Eysturoy
Nes, Eysturoy

Nes is a village and municipality on the southwest coast of the Faroese island of Eysturoy. Its current church was built in 1843. The 2005 population was 230....
, before he settled in Denmark
Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
 in 1878. The orthography he created was consistent with having a continuous written tradition to the Old Norse language from which it originates, rather than creating a phonetically true orthography (as in Welsh
Welsh language

Welsh ]], is a member of the Brythonic branch of Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, in England by some along the Welsh Marches and in the Welsh settlement in Argentina in the Chubut Valley in Argentina Patagonia....
.) For example, the letter Eth (Đ) has no phoneme
Phoneme

In human language, a phoneme is the smallest posited linguistically distinctive unit of sound. Phonemes carry no semantic content themselves. In theoretical terms, phonemes are not the physical segment s themselves, but cognitive abstractions or categorizations of them....
s attached to it.

In addition to his contributions to the written standard of Faroese, he was also a known folklorist.








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Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb (1819 – 1909) established the modern orthography of Faroese
Faroese language

Faroese , often also spelled Faeroese , is a West Nordic or West Scandinavian language spoken by 48,000 people in the Faroe Islands and about 12,000 Faroese people in Denmark....
, the language of the Faroe Islands
Faroe Islands

The Faroe Islands or Faeroe Islands or simply Faroe or Faeroes are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately half way between Scotland and Iceland....
, in 1854. He was born in Sandavágur
Sandavágur

The town of Sandav?gur lies on the south coast of the Faroe Islands of V?gar, and has been voted the most well-kept village in the Faroes twice....
 on the island of Vagar
Vágar

Vagar is also the old name of Walls, Shetland IslandsV?gar is one of the 18 islands in the archipelago of the Faroe Islands and the most westerly of the large islands....
. He was a parish priest in Kvívík
Kvívík

Kvivik is a village on the west coast of Streymoy in the Faroe Islands.*Population: 367*Postal code : FO 340*Location: ...
 and a rural dean
Rural Dean

In the Anglican Communion and the Roman Catholic Church, a Rural Dean presides over a Rural Deanery ....
 in Nes, Eysturoy
Nes, Eysturoy

Nes is a village and municipality on the southwest coast of the Faroese island of Eysturoy. Its current church was built in 1843. The 2005 population was 230....
, before he settled in Denmark
Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
 in 1878. The orthography he created was consistent with having a continuous written tradition to the Old Norse language from which it originates, rather than creating a phonetically true orthography (as in Welsh
Welsh language

Welsh ]], is a member of the Brythonic branch of Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, in England by some along the Welsh Marches and in the Welsh settlement in Argentina in the Chubut Valley in Argentina Patagonia....
.) For example, the letter Eth (Đ) has no phoneme
Phoneme

In human language, a phoneme is the smallest posited linguistically distinctive unit of sound. Phonemes carry no semantic content themselves. In theoretical terms, phonemes are not the physical segment s themselves, but cognitive abstractions or categorizations of them....
s attached to it.

In addition to his contributions to the written standard of Faroese, he was also a known folklorist.