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There are several theories about the origin of the name of the Frisians, which is derived from Frisii or Fresones, names used by the Romans to describe a Germanic tribe that inhabited the same region but disappeared during the 5th century before the appearance of the Frisians.
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.
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
2. Feb. 2020 · These are the Frisians, inhabiting the historic region known as Frisia on the coasts of the North Sea. Today, Frisia is partly in the Netherlands and partly in Germany, but the identity and the history of the Frisian people is recognized and supported.
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
Old Frisian was a West Germanic language spoken between the 8th and 16th centuries along the North Sea coast, roughly between the mouths of the Rhine and Weser rivers. The Frisian settlers on the coast of South Jutland (today's Northern Friesland) also spoke Old Frisian, but
Frisian dates back as far as the Early Middle Ages. It began to become a language distinct from other North Sea Germanic languages, such as Old English. During the High Middle Ages, Old Frisian was used as a written language (e.g. in legal texts) and as the official regional language.
