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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.
The Frisian languages (/ ˈ f r iː ʒ ə n / FREE-zhən [1] or / ˈ f r ɪ z i ə n / 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.
Pier Gerlofs Donia (1480–1520), Frisian freedom fighter and folk hero; founder of the Arumer Black Heap Ennik Somi Douma (stage name Jeon Somi, born 2001), South Korean-Canadian singer Lenny Dykstra , Major League baseball player for the New York Mets (1985–1989) and Philadelphia Phillies (1989–1996)
The West Frisian language and its urban dialects are spoken by the majority of the inhabitants. In East Frisia, the idea of "Frisian freedom" became entangled with regional sentiments as well, though the East Frisian language had been replaced by Low German dialects as early as the 15th century. In Groningen, on the other hand, Frisian ...
Frisian Americans are Americans with full or partial Frisian ancestry. Frisians are a Germanic ethnic group native to the coastal parts of the Netherlands and Germany . They are closely related to the Dutch, Northern Germans, and the English and speak Frisian languages divided by geographical regions.
Statue of Pier Gerlofs Donia, the Frisian folk hero and freedom fighter. Frisia is a small region in the north of the modern day country known as the Netherlands.In the Iron Age, the ancestors of the modern Frisians first migrated south out of modern day Scandinavia to the south west where they began to settle along the coast.
This is a list of East Frisian people who are important to the region of East Frisia and its history in that they have played a key role in the region or are ...
Though not a Frisian language by linguistic classification, the language is a dialect of the Low Saxon language which is locally known as "East Frisian" ("Oostfreesk"), and has major influences in vocabulary and grammar from the original East Frisian language. The only surviving dialect of the East Frisian language is the Saterlandic dialect.