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The Frisian languages (/ ˈfriːʒən / FREE-zhən[1] or / ˈfrɪziən / FRIZ-ee-ən[2]) 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 is a West Germanic language spoken in its West Frisian form by an estimated 400,000 people in the province of Friesland, where the total population is around 640,000, and by another 300,000 Frisians who left Friesland to find work elsewhere in the Netherlands. Frisians are bilingual in Frisian and Dutch.
According to a survey by the Province of Fryslân (2007: De Fryske Taalatlas), 94% of the inhabitants of Friesland understand Frisian, 74% can speak the language, 75% of the inhabitants can read Frisian and 26% can write it. More than half of the inhabitants indicated that Frisian is their mother tongue.
Demographics. Language Area. Frisian is spoken in large parts of Fryslân, one of the twelve provinces of the Netherlands. ? +. Speaker numbers. Census of 2015: Proficiency in the Frisian language in the province of Fryslân: Source: 5) Percentage of Frisians that speak the Frisian language in different age classes: source: 6)
West Frisian, commonly referred to as Frisian (Frisian: Frysk), is a western Germanic, autochthonous minority and official language spoken in Friesland (Frisian: Fryslân), one of the 12 provinces of the Netherlands. In 2018, 61% of the population of Fryslân reported that Frisian was their first language.
19. Apr. 2022 · Mirjam Vellinga (MV): At the moment a little more than half of the population in Fryslân speaks Frisian as their first language and around 75 percent of the population speaks Frisian on a daily basis. Almost all of the province’s approximately 650,000 inhabitants can understand the language: about 95 percent. This means that you ...
Corresponding to the geographical separation of these areas, which is the result of a complex historical process involving several migration events and language shifts, the Frisian language is traditionally divided into three dialect groups: West Frisian, East Frisian (Saterlandic), and North Frisian.
