Frisian is a group of languages spoken in parts of the Netherlands and Germany, and are closely related to English. Amongst the oldest Germanic languages, Frisian carries historical significance, with unique phonetic and grammatical structures.
Frisian
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Classification
Indo-European > Germanic
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Speakers
450,000
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Script
Roman
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Text direction
Left-to-right
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Official language
Germany, Netherlands
Frisian
Frisian is part of the West Germanic language group alongside Dutch and German. The Frisian languages are reckoned to be the closest living language group to English and share many similarities to Old English.
Frisian is a group of three Germanic languages: East Frisian spoken in Lower Saxon in Germany, North Frisian spoken in Schleswig-Holstein in Germany and West Frisian spoken in Netherlands. Frisian is called Frysk in West Frisian, Fräisk in Saterland Frisian, and Frasch, Fresk, Freesk, and Friisk in the dialects of North Frisian.
North Frisian is an official recognised and protected minority language in Germany and it’s also one of the two official languages in the Netherlands.
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Interesting fact
Frisian is so similar to English that the rhyme Brea, bûter, en griene tsiis is goed Ingelsk en goed Frysk (Bread, butter and green cheese, is good English and good Fries), is pronounced nearly the same in both languages.
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