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West Frisian
Frisian
Frysk Westerlauwersk Frysk
Pronunciation
[frisk], [ˈvɛstr̩ˌlɔuə(r)s(k)frisk]
Native to
Netherlands
Region
Friesland
Ethnicity
West Frisians
Native speakers
470,000 (2001 census)[1]
Language family
Indo-European
Germanic
West Germanic
North Sea Germanic
Anglo-Frisian
Frisian
West Frisian
Westlauwers–Terschellings
West Frisian
Writing system
West Frisian
Official status
Official language in
Netherlands
Friesland
Regulated by
Fryske Akademy
Language codes
ISO 639-1
fy
ISO 639-2
fry
ISO 639-3
fry
Glottolog
west2354
ELP
West Frisian
Linguasphere
52-ACA-b
Present-day distribution West Frisian languages, in the Netherlands
Frisian is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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A West Frisian speaker, recorded in the Netherlands.
West Frisian, or simply Frisian (West Frisian: Frysk[frisk] or Westerlauwersk Frysk; Dutch: Fries[fris], also Westerlauwers Fries), is a West Germanic language spoken mostly in the province of Friesland (Fryslân) in the north of the Netherlands, mostly by those of Frisian ancestry. It is the most widely spoken of the Frisian languages.
In the study of the evolution of English, West Frisian is notable as being the most closely related foreign tongue to the various dialects of Old English spoken across the Heptarchy, these being part of the Anglo-Frisian branch of the West Germanic family.[citation needed]
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