Faroese Language Board

<h2 id="tasks">Tasks</h2>
<p>According to the board's purpose clause (§2), these are the committee's set tasks:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a>
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<ul><li>Collecting and storing new Faroese words and helping to choose and create new words. The board must also be observant to find linguistic errors that are committed and then try to prevent the errors from becoming widespread.</li>
<li>To work with language boards in associations and institutions, and support them as much as possible in their work.</li>
<li>Responding to issues related to language for institutions and private bodies, and collaborating with institutions and media that have a significant impact on language, such as government administration, schools, newspapers, radio and television.</li>
<li>To answer questions about personal-names, place names and other names. Questions and answers will be stored in the board's archive.</li>
<li>To cooperate with other linguistic councils / boards and similar institutions in other Nordic countries, and send representatives to their meetings.</li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://malrad.fo/">Website</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>"Føroyska málnevndin". Archived from the original on 2008-05-17. Retrieved 2019-03-04. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080517015222/http://www.fmn.fo/malnevndin/regulation.htm" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20080517015222/http://www.fmn.fo/malnevndin/regulation.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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Faroese Language Board