A counter-proposalJakobsen, 1889. to Hammerhaimb’s orthography was presented in 1898 by Jakob Jakobsen, a philologist and folklorist, and the first Faroese to earn a doctoral degree.Magerøy, 2020. Jakobsen proposed a strict phonetic orthography, but the strong support for Hammershaimb’s spelling forced him to abandonded the project.Petersen, 2010.
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