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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.
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 .
The Frisian languages (/ ˈ f r iː ʒ ə n / FREE-zhən [1] or / ˈ f r ɪ z i ə n / 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.
Gysbert Japiks (1603–1666), Frisian writer, poet, schoolteacher and cantor; Wijard Jelckama (1490–1523), Frisian freedom fighter, nephew of Pier Gerlofs Donia and who later led the Frisian rebellion (Arumer Black Heap) Tako Hajo Jelgersma (1702–1795), 18th-century Dutch painter; William Harry Jellema (1893-1982), American philosopher
Statue of Pier Gerlofs Donia, the Frisian folk hero and freedom fighter. Frisia is a small region in the north of the modern day country known as the Netherlands.In the Iron Age, the ancestors of the modern Frisians first migrated south out of modern day Scandinavia to the south west where they began to settle along the coast.
Frisian(s) most often refers to: Frisia, a cross-border coastal region in Germany and the Netherlands Frisians, the medieval and modern ethnic group inhabiting Frisia Frisii, the ancient inhabitants of Frisia prior to 600 AD; Frisian languages, a group of West Germanic languages, including: Old Frisian, spoken in Frisia from the 8th to 16th Century
This is a list of East Frisian people who are important to the region of East Frisia and its history in that they have played a key role in the region or are ...
The West Frisians or, more precisely, the Westlauwers Frisians (Dutch: Friezen or Westerlauwerse Friezen, West Frisian: Friezen or Westerlauwerske Friezen), are those Frisian peoples in that part of Frisia administered by the Netherlands: the Province of Friesland, which is bounded in the west by the IJsselmeer and in the east by the River Lauwers (hence the name Westlauwers, i.e., "west of ...