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The Frisian languages are spoken by more than 500,000 people; West Frisian is officially recognised in the Netherlands (in Friesland ), and North Frisian and Saterland Frisian are recognised as regional languages in 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
By the 8th century, ethnic Frisians also started to colonize the coastal areas North of the Eider River under Danish rule. The nascent Frisian languages were spoken all along the southern North Sea coast. Today, the whole region is sometimes referred to as Greater Frisia (Latin: Frisia Magna).
4 de mar. de 2020 · Friesland [or Fryslân] is an area inhabited by a Germanic ethnic group called Frisians who are indigenous to the coastal parts of the Netherlands and North-West Germany.
- Sinead Walsh
- 04 March 2020
23 de fev. de 2023 · Most closely related to English, three Frisian languages are still spoken today: West Frisian in the Netherlands, and Saterland Frisian and North Frisian in Germany.
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.
25 de mar. de 2019 · The study of early medieval Frisia is part and parcel of that of the North Sea world as a whole, whose ever-changing sociocultural currents directly and collaterally affected the peoples and communities dwelling along its assorted littorals.
