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Profile. 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.
Several thousand people in Nordfriesland and Heligoland in Germany speak a collection of North Frisian dialects. A small number of Saterland Frisian language speakers live in four villages in Lower Saxony , in the Saterland region of Cloppenburg county, just beyond the boundaries of traditional East Frisia .
Netherlands and Germany. 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.
These are a branch of the Germanic group of the Indo-European language family. Sater-Frisian (East-Frisian) is spoken in the north-western part of Lower Saxony and West-Frisian is spoken in the north of the Netherlands. Nowadays there are 9 dialects of North Frisian and about 8 000-10 000 active speakers.
The number of the representatives of the Frisian ethnic group is estimated at around 60,000. They reside in the North Sea coastal areas in the Länder of Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony, as well as in the district of Cloppenburg in Lower Saxony. There are two Frisian languages covered by the protection of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Overall 1.2 million people live in the Frisian regions, almost half a million of them in East Frisia. Besides the Danish, the Sorbs, the Sinti and Roma are the Frisian one of the officially recognized minorities in Germany. More about Frisia and Frisians in the internet: Wikipedia about the Frisians; Wikipedia about East Frisia
The North Frisian Islands are located in Germany so all locals speak standard German. The region is officially bi-lingual and actually tri-lingual as not only is the Frisian language still taught and spoken, Danish, Low German and South Jutlandic ("Low Danish") plays a local role as well. both are protected by law.
