4,590 residents of Canada reported having Frisian ancestry in the 2016 Canadian Census.[6][7]
United States
2,145 (ancestry estimate)[8]
Languages
Frisian languages Low Saxon (Friso-Saxon dialects) Dutch (West Frisian Dutch and Stadsfries) German (Missingsch) Danish (Sønderjysk and Southern Schleswig Danish)
Religion
Protestant majority (Calvinists and Lutherans) Roman Catholic minority
The Frisians are an ethnic group indigenous to the coastal regions of the Netherlands, north-western Germany and southern Denmark, and during the Early Middle Ages in the north-western coastal zone of Flanders,[9] Belgium. They inhabit an area known as Frisia and are concentrated in the Dutch provinces of Friesland and Groningen and, in Germany, East Frisia and North Frisia (which was a part of Denmark until 1864).[10]
There are many theories about the origin of the name of the Frisians, Frisii or Fresones in the Latin language as first documented in the first century AD. Most probably the name is derived from the verb fresare in the Vulgar Latin language in the meaning of 'milling, cutting, grooving, crushing, removing shells'. A name given to the Frisians because they 'cut the land': digging countless ditches and dykes to irrigate the wet marshlands they lived at.[11] Compare fresar el paisaje in the Roman language Spanish. Another theory is the name derives from frisselje (to braid, thus referring to braided hair).
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.
^"Groep fan Auwerk". www.groepfanauwerk.com. 30 December 2023.
^Gooskens, Charlotte; Heeringa, Wilbert. "The Position of Frisian in the Germanic Language Area". Researchgate. University of Groningen. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
^Lewis, M. Paul (ed.), 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version.
^"Die friesische Volksgruppe". Minderheitensekretariat der vier autochthonen nationalen Minderheiten und Volksgruppen (in German). Retrieved 6 January 2020. Geschätzt 60.000 Menschen sind ihrem Selbstverständnis nach Friesen. [an estimated 60,000 people self identify as Frisian]
^"Immigration and Ethnocultural Diversity Highlight Tables". www12.statcan.gc.ca/. Statistics Canada. 25 October 2017. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
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Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version.
^"Table 1. First, Second, and Total Responses to the Ancestry Question by Detailed Ancestry Code: 2000". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2 December 2010.
^Faber, Hans (8 August 2021). "A Frontier known as Watery Mess: the Coast of Flanders". Frisia Coast Trail.
^"Herzlich Willkommen". interfriesischerrat.de.
^Faber, Hans (14 August 2022). "A severe case of inattentional blindness: the Frisian tribe's name". Frisia Coast Trail.
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group of Frisians, and, according to a 1970 poll, identify themselves more with the Dutch than with the East or North Frisians. Anglo-Frisian languages...
not always literal translations of each other. East Frisian Low Saxon Frisia Frisian Islands Frisians Imperativus Pro Infinitivo Laurie Bauer, 2007, The...
times, the Frisians (or rather their close neighbours, the Chauci) lived on terps, man-made hills. According to other sources, the Frisians lived along...
of the villages Marum (West Frisian: Mearum), De Wilp (De Wylp), and Opende (De Grinzer Pein). Also, many West Frisians have left their province in the...
East Frisian (also East Friesian) is an adjective referring to East Frisia, a region in Germany. It can refer specifically to: East Frisians, the people...
King of the Frisians. While Aldgisl had welcomed Christianity into his realm, Redbad attempted to extirpate the religion and free the Frisians from subjugation...
Uthlande. The North Frisians in the Uthlande were ruled directly by the Danish king and were known as Königsfriesen or "King's Frisians". Only later did...
related to the insular North Frisian dialects of Fering and Öömrang because medieval fishery around Heligoland attracted Frisians from Föhr and Amrum, and...
figure Magnus Forteman. Other legends say the Frisians received their freedom from Charlemagne after the Frisians, under command of Magnus, freed Rome from...
The West Frisians or, more precisely, the Westlauwers Frisians (Dutch: Friezen or Westerlauwerse Friezen, West Frisian: Friezen or Westerlauwerske Friezen)...
humour, East Frisian jokes (German: Ostfriesenwitz) belong to the group of riddle jokes about certain nationalities, in this case the East Frisians of northern...
exists a tripartite division of the original Frisians; namely the North Frisians, East Frisians and West Frisian, caused by the Frisia's constant loss of...
Saterland Frisian may refer to: Something of, from, or related to Saterland Saterland Frisian language Saterland FrisiansFrisian (disambiguation) This...
were seldom contracted with East Frisians for some ages. East Frisian at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018) Saterland Frisian at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018) Versloot...
the Frisians from the region of North Frisia, which lies primarily on the German North Sea coast, and on the island of Heligoland. The North Frisians live...
extinct Wursten dialect. The last speaker died in 1953. Frisia Frisian Islands East Frisians "Change Request Documentation: 2021-007". SIL International...
the North Frisian language for official use in the Nordfriesland district and on Heligoland. Frisian languages North Frisia FrisiansFrisian Islands General...
Frisians to submit. Radbod died in 719, but for some years his successors struggled against the Frankish power. What the exact title of the Frisian rulers...
Schiermonnikoog Frisian is the most endangered of the West Frisian languages, spoken by no more than 50 to 100 people (out of an island population of 900...
eventually be referred to as "Frisians", although they were not descended from the ancient Frisii. These new Frisians settled in the northern Netherlands...
portal Saterland Frisian edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Frisia Frisian Islands Frisian languages Frisians Saterland Frisians A number of 6,370...
today is Saterland Frisian, an Ems-group dialect. The Wursten landscape was not part of the original settling area of the Frisians but was eventually...
medieval 'Frisians' from whom modern Frisians descend. In the Middle Ages, these Frisians formed the Kingdom of Frisia and later the Frisian freedom confederation...
Halligen Frisian (North Frisian: Halifreesk) is the dialect of the North Frisian language spoken on the Halligen islands, primarily Langeneß and Hooge...
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