@inbook{0e5c6bf33bcf41aebfd0ae3403c441a6,
title = "Faroese Dialect Classifications",
abstract = "This paper provides a historical overview of Faroese dialect classifications. Debes (1673) distinguished the southern from the northern dialects, separated by Skopunarfj{\o}r{\dh}ur. Svabo (1773) mentioned in addition to the northern and southern dialects, the dialect of the capital T{\'o}rshavn as being “the most corrupt” dialect. A decade later, Svabo distinguished a fourth dialect in the central part of the islands. In 1823 the dialect situation is shortly commented in a dispute on a translation of the gospel of St Matthew into Faroese, also distinguishing two dialects. Hammershaimb (1854) distinguished three main dialects: the Southern dialect, the dialect of Streymoy and the Northern dialect, but in 1891 he returned to the distinction between north and south. In 1996 and 2022 Petersen proposed a new classification, where he classified the dialect of V{\'a}gar as part of a North-Western group.",
keywords = "dialect classification, isoglottic dialectology, Faroese, dialektflokking, f{\o}royskt",
author = "Jacobsen, {J{\'o}gvan {\'i} Lon}",
year = "2023",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1344/DIALECTOLOGIA2023.2023.4",
language = "English",
series = "Dialectologia",
publisher = "Universitat de Barcelona",
number = "11 (special issue)",
pages = "89--110",
editor = "{Gotzon Aurrekoetxea, Ariane Ensunza, Jo{\v z}ica {\v S}kofic and Hans Van de Velde}",
booktitle = "Dialectologia.",
}