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West Frisian, or simply Frisian (West Frisian: Frysk or Westerlauwersk Frysk; Dutch: Fries, also Westerlauwers Fries), is a West Germanic language spoken mostly in the province of Friesland (Fryslân) in the north of the Netherlands, mostly by those of Frisian ancestry.
- West Frisian languages
The West Frisian languages are a group of closely related,...
- West Frisians
The West Frisians or, more precisely, the Westlauwers...
- West Frisian grammar
The grammar of the West Frisian language, a West Germanic...
- Anglo-Frisian languages
The Anglo-Frisian languages are the Anglic (English, Scots,...
- West Frisian languages
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.
West Frisian is spoken in the Dutch province of Fryslan/Friesland, and also in a number of border villages in the neighboring province of Groningen. According to the 2001 census, there are 470,000 West Frisian speakers. The language can be used in dealings with public bodies, and is taught or used as a medium of instruction in most schools.
