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The Frisian languages (/ ˈ f r iː ʒ ə n / FREE-zhən or / ˈ f r ɪ z i ə n / FRIZ-ee-ən) are a closely related group of West Germanic languages, spoken by about 400,000 Frisian people, who live on the southern fringes of the North Sea in the Netherlands and Germany.
2. Apr. 2019 · Along with Dutch, West Frisian is the official language in the northern province of Friesland in the Netherlands. There are over 450,000 Frysk speakers, who typically identify themselves as ethnically Dutch, rather than Frisian. They also have their own regional dialects.
Frisian language, the West Germanic language most closely related to English. Although Frisian was formerly spoken from what is now the province of Noord-Holland (North Holland) in the Netherlands along the North Sea coastal area to modern German Schleswig, including the offshore islands in this.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Frisian languages are spoken by more than 500,000 people; West Frisian is officially recognised in the Netherlands (in Friesland), and North Frisian and Saterland Frisian are recognised as regional languages in Germany.
Frisian, people of western Europe whose name survives in that of the mainland province of Friesland and in that of the Frisian Islands off the coast of the Netherlands but who once occupied a much more extensive area. In prehistoric times the Frisians inhabited the coastal regions from the mouth of.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
A half-million Frisians in the province of Friesland in the Netherlands speak West Frisian. Several thousand people in Nordfriesland and Heligoland in Germany speak a collection of North Frisian dialects.
Frisian, a West Germanic language, is primarily spoken in the Netherlands, Denmark, and Germany today. However, throughout history, there have been instances where the influence of the Frisian language extended beyond these regions.
