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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.
Of these three languages both Saterland Frisian (2,000 speakers) and North Frisian (10,000 speakers) [39] are endangered. West Frisian is spoken by around 350,000 native speakers in Friesland, [40] and as many as 470,000 when including speakers in neighbouring Groningen province. [4]
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.
1.1.1 Anglo-Frisian. 1. ... An estimated 315 million people speak a ... where it is spoken fluently by about 750,000 and understood by more than 1.5 million people.
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.
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.
Around 3,000 of Föhr's 8,700 people speak Fering (1,500 of them being native speakers [1]), constituting a third of all North Frisian speakers.Fering differs from other North Frisian dialects in that it is also used publicly on Föhr, not only at home.