Publisher's Synopsis
Winnie-the-Pooh is the most popular children's book in the Faroe Islands. It is also the most popular children's book in the world, but it is especially popular in the Faroe Islands. Faroese Language is spoken by 66,000 people primarily in the Faroese Islands. It is a North Germanic language spoken by about 66,000 people, 45,000 of whom reside on the Faroe Islands and 21,000 in other areas, mainly Denmark. It is one of five languages descended from Old Norse, the others being Norwegian and Icelandic. Faroese and Icelandic, its closest extant relative, are not mutually intelligible in speech, but the written languages resemble each other. There are also speakers in Denmark among the Faroe Islanders who have immigrared there. As with most other Germanic languages, Faroese has a large number of vowels, with 26 in total. Vowel distribution is similar to other North Germanic languages in that short vowels appear in closed syllables (those ending in consonant clusters or long consonants) and long vowels appearing in open syllables. This translation is by Gunnar Hoydal. Gunnar Hoydal was past president of the Association of Writers of the Faroe Islands (called RithOvundafelag FOroya in Faroese) from 1981 to 1986, an association for authors and translators who write in the Faroese language. These authors live primarily in the Faroe Islands, but some of them also live in other countries. Some Faroese writers write not only in Faroese but also in Danish, but most Faroese writers write primarily in Faroese. The Faroese language is only spoken by the Faroese people of the Faroe Islands, which currently have a population of 50.000 people. The Association of Writers of the Faroe Islands was established in 1957. Ishi Press has reprinted translations of Winnie-the-Pooh into 44 languages thus far. We have published it in Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bulgarian, Cebuano, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Sinhalese, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Yiddish, Hindi, Urdu, Khowar, Kalasha and Latin. We have three more languages ready.
