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The other Frisian languages, meanwhile, have been influenced by Low German and German. Stadsfries and West Frisian Dutch are not Frisian, but Dutch dialects influenced by West Frisian. Frisian is called Frysk in West Frisian, Fräisk in Saterland Frisian, [6] and Friisk, fresk, freesk, frasch, fräisch, and freesch in the varieties of North ...
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]
A West Frisian speaker, recorded in the Netherlands. Most speakers of West Frisian live in the province of Friesland in the north of the Netherlands. 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]
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.
Rank Name Native speakers Total speakers 1 Russian: 106,000,000 [1]: 160,000,000 [1]: 2 German: 97,000,000 [2]: 170,000,000 [3]: 3 French: 81,000,000 [4]: 210,000,000 ...
The mutual intelligibility in reading between Dutch and Frisian is limited. A cloze test in 2005 revealed native Dutch speakers understood 31.9% of a West Frisian newspaper, 66.4% of an Afrikaans newspaper and 97.1% of a Dutch newspaper. [14] Westlauwers Frisian. Wood Frisian; Clay Frisian; Noordhoeks; Zuidwesthoeks; Hindeloopers; Westers ...
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.
What is noteworthy about the Saterland Frisians today is that they have preserved the old Frisian language, the last Frisians in East Frisia to do so, Approximately 1,000-2,500 people speak a Frisian dialect interspersed with elements of Low Saxon known as Saterland Frisian. Research by the University of Göttingen put the number at 2,250 persons.