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The Frisian languages (/ ˈ f r iː ʒ ə n / FREE-zhən or / ˈ f r ɪ z i ə n / FRIZ-ee-ən) 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.
Frisian, people of western Europe whose name survives in that of the mainland province of Friesland and in that of the Frisian Islands off the coast of the Netherlands but who once occupied a much more extensive area.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Frisian language, the West Germanic language most closely related to English. Although Frisian was formerly spoken from what is now the province of Noord-Holland (North Holland) in the Netherlands along the North Sea coastal area to modern German Schleswig, including the offshore islands in this.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Frisian language group is divided into three mutually unintelligible languages: West Frisian, spoken in the Dutch province of Friesland; Saterland Frisian, spoken in the German municipality of Saterland just south of East Frisia
Frisian dates back as far as the Early Middle Ages. It began to become a language distinct from other North Sea Germanic languages, such as Old English. During the High Middle Ages, Old Frisian was used as a written language (e.g. in legal texts) and as the official regional language.
Summary. Frisian is a West Germanic language that is indigenous to the southern coastal region of the North Sea in the Netherlands and Germany.
23 de out. de 2019 · Historical Dialectology: West Frisian in Seven Centuries. Arjen Versloot. Reference work entry. First Online: 23 October 2019. 87 Accesses. 3 Citations. Abstract. Descriptions of late nineteenth-century Germanic dialects suggest or even explicitly claim that they were shaped in the Late Middle Ages or the Early Modern period.
