Problem:IOL/2011/i2/en(A)

IOL 2011 Problem #2 Faroese
The following are words of the Faroese language written in the regular orthography and in phonetic transcription as well as their English translations:

(a) Fill in the gaps.

(b) Describe the rules you used.

⚠ Faroese belongs to the Northern subgroup of the Germanic languages. It is spoken by approx. 48 000 people in the Faroe Islands and elsewhere. In the transcription [j] = y in yum, [w] = w in win; [ɛ], [ɔ], [ø], [ʉ] are vowels. The mark ː denotes vowel length.

—Alexander Piperski