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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.
The Frisian languages are spoken by more than 500,000 people; West Frisian is ... In regards of the Frisian language, very few may speak it as first language but ...
Friesland has 643,000 inhabitants (2005), of whom 94% can understand spoken West Frisian, 74% can speak West Frisian, 75% can read West Frisian, and 27% can write it. [2] For over half of the inhabitants of the province of Friesland, 55% (c. 354,000 people), West Frisian is the native language.
The Frisian languages are a group of languages spoken by about 500,000 Frisian people on the southern fringes of the North Sea in the Netherlands and Germany. West Frisian, by far the most spoken of the three main branches with 875,840 total speakers, [11] [full citation needed] constitutes an official language in the Dutch province of Friesland.
The Frisian languages are spoken by about 400,000 (as of 2015) Frisians, [10] [11] who live on the southern coast of the North Sea in the Netherlands and Germany. These languages include West Frisian, East Frisian (of which the only surviving dialect is Saterlandic) and North Frisian. [10]
Frisian Americans are Americans with full or partial Frisian ancestry.. Frisians are a Germanic ethnic group native to the coastal parts of the Netherlands and Germany.They are closely related to the Dutch, Northern Germans, and the English and speak Frisian languages divided by geographical regions.
Whilst many East Frisians had lost their Frisian language by the late Middle Ages, of the 660,000 or so Frisians in the Netherlands, more than 400,000 still speak West Frisian. [ 1 ] Many Frisian Americans descend from West Frisians.
North Frisian is a minority language of Germany, spoken by about 10,000 people in North Frisia. [2] The language is part of the larger group of the West Germanic Frisian languages . The language comprises 10 dialects which are themselves divided into an insular and a mainland group.