Faroese orthography

Faroese orthography is the method employed to write the Faroese language, using a 29-letter Latin alphabet, although it does not include the letters C, Q, W, X and Z.

The Faroese alphabet consists of 29 letters derived from the Latin script: This section lists Faroese letters and letter combinations and their phonemic representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet.

[1] Faroese vowels may be either long or short, but this distinction is only relevant in stressed syllables: the only unstressed vowels (at least in native words) are [a, ɪ, ʊ].

There are, however, some exceptions to the vowel length rule:[3] Faroese avoids having a hiatus between two vowels by inserting a glide.

Orthographically, this is shown in three ways: Typically, the first vowel is long and in words with two syllables always stressed, while the second vowel is short and unstressed.