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Faroymal (Swedish: Fårömål; Fårö Gutnish) is the dialect of Gutnish spoken on the Baltic island of Fårö. The name "Fårö" (in Gutnish, Faroy) is derived from the words ö, meaning island, and probably far-, which is a word stem associated with travel, as in the Swedish verb fara (to travel). The name Fårö probably means 'the island you have to travel to' or 'the traveler's island'. Mainland Swedes might misinterpret the name Fårö to be derived from får, the Standard Swedish word for 'sheep', due to the many sheep on the island. That word is absent from Modern Gutnish, which uses the word lamm (which in Swedish means 'lamb') instead.[1] Gotlanders describe Faroymal as sounding "coarse" and as characterized by "mumbling".[2]

Dialectal Differences and Similarities[3]

Fårö Gutnish	Mainland Gutnish	Swedish	English
Bondi	Bonde	Jordbrukare	Farmer
Fastlande[lower-alpha 1]	Gåttland or Gutland	Gotland	Gotland
Svensk Fastlande	Fastlande	Sverige	Sweden
Hertingg	Hertingg	Hertig	Duke
Åvla	Åvle	Odla	Farm

Faroymal
Fårö Gutnish
Native to	Sweden
Region	Fårö
Language family	Indo-European Germanic North Germanic Gutnish Faroymal
Early forms	Old Norse Old Gutnish Gutnish
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Linguist List	swe-far
Glottolog	faro1245

Notes

References

External link

• Loogna, Martin (4 August 2020). "Loogna besöker vackra Fårö och försöker lära sig Fårömål" [Loogna visits beautiful Fårö and tries to learn Fårö Gutnish]. Star FM (in Swedish). Retrieved 6 May 2022.

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