You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Western Frisian. (October 2023) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Western Frisian Wikipedia article at [[:fy:Westerlauwerske Friezen]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|fy|Westerlauwerske Friezen}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.
West Frisian people
Regions with significant populations
Netherlands
Friesland
400,000
Languages
West Frisian, Friso-Saxon, West Frisian Dutch, Stadsfries
Related ethnic groups
North Frisians, East Frisians, Saterland Frisians
The West Frisians or, more precisely, the Westlauwers Frisians (Dutch: Friezen or Westerlauwerse Friezen, West Frisian: Friezen or Westerlauwerske Friezen), are those Frisian peoples in that part of Frisia administered by the Netherlands: the Province of Friesland, which is bounded in the west by the IJsselmeer and in the east by the River Lauwers (hence the name Westlauwers, i.e., "west of the Lauwers").
In Germany, Dutch Frisia is often usually called "West Frisia" (Westfriesland), because the German part is called "East Frisia" (Ostfriesland), hence the term "West Frisians" (Westfriesen).
However, in the Netherlands, the term West-Friezen is only used to refer to the inhabitants of the unconnected region of West Friesland and not to the Westlauwers Frisians.
The Westerlauwers Frisians are related to the North Frisians and the eastern Frisians (East Frisians, Saterland Frisians etc.). Whilst many East Frisians had lost their Frisian language by the late Middle Ages, of the 660,000 or so Frisians in the Netherlands, more than 400,000 still speak West Frisian.[1]
Many Frisian Americans descend from West Frisians.[2]
^1997 data, Yngve, Victor (2006). Hard-Science Linguistics. A&C Black. p. 215. ISBN 978-1-84714-088-3.
^Levinson, David; Ember, Melvin (1997). American Immigrant Cultures: Builders of a Nation. Simon & Schuster Macmillan. p. 298. ISBN 978-0-02-897214-5.
The WestFrisians or, more precisely, the Westlauwers Frisians (Dutch: Friezen or Westerlauwerse Friezen, WestFrisian: Friezen or Westerlauwerske Friezen)...
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...
area of the villages Marum (WestFrisian: Mearum), De Wilp (De Wylp), and Opende (De Grinzer Pein). Also, many WestFrisians have left their province in...
not always literal translations of each other. East Frisian Low Saxon Frisia Frisian Islands Frisians Imperativus Pro Infinitivo Laurie Bauer, 2007, The...
The WestFrisian languages are a group of closely related, though not mutually intelligible, Frisian languages of the Netherlands. Due to the marginalization...
times, the Frisians (or rather their close neighbours, the Chauci) lived on terps, man-made hills. According to other sources, the Frisians lived along...
The WestFrisian dialect (Dutch: West-Fries) is a Dutch dialect spoken in the contemporary West Friesland region, Wieringen, Wieringermeer, the coastal...
medieval 'Frisians' from whom modern Frisians descend. In the Middle Ages, these Frisians formed the Kingdom of Frisia and later the Frisian freedom confederation...
exists a tripartite division of the original Frisians; namely the North Frisians, East Frisians and WestFrisian, caused by the Frisia's constant loss of...
figure Magnus Forteman. Other legends say the Frisians received their freedom from Charlemagne after the Frisians, under command of Magnus, freed Rome from...
portal Saterland Frisian edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Frisia Frisian Islands Frisian languages Frisians Saterland Frisians A number of 6,370...
The WestFrisian Islands (Dutch: Waddeneilanden; WestFrisian: Waadeilannen) are a chain of islands in the North Sea off the Dutch coast, along the edge...
Föhr dialect. The North Frisians eventually agreed upon the inter-dialectal name "friisk" which corresponds to the WestFrisian native name "frysk". 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...
languages). The West Germanic branch is classically subdivided into three branches: Ingvaeonic, which includes English and the Frisian languages; Istvaeonic...
Hindeloopen Frisian (natively Hylpers, WestFrisian: Hylpersk, also referred to as Hindeloopers in English and Dutch) is a WestFrisian variety spoken...
King of the Frisians. While Aldgisl had welcomed Christianity into his realm, Redbad attempted to extirpate the religion and free the Frisians from subjugation...
Westlauwers Frisians. Sometimes all Frisians from the eastern Frisian regions (East Frisians, Saterland Frisians, Oldenburg Frisians, Rüstringen Frisians, Wurtfrisians)...
Terschelling Frisian, or Skylgersk, is a WestFrisian language spoken on the island of Terschelling (Skylge) in the Netherlands. In the central stretch...
Schiermonnikoog Frisian is the most endangered of the WestFrisian languages, spoken by no more than 50 to 100 people (out of an island population of 900...
Gesäts. Saterland Frisians East FrisiansWestFrisians "Language Diversity – English | the North Frisians in Germany". North Frisian Society Archived 2010-10-13...
modern Frisians and the (Northern) Dutch are rather similar; the main and generally most important difference being that Frisians speak WestFrisian, one...
cities were often fought over between the Frisians and the Franks. In 734, at the Battle of the Boarn, the Frisians were defeated after a series of wars....
The grammar of the WestFrisian language, a West Germanic language spoken mostly in the province of Friesland (Fryslân) in the north of the Netherlands...
Global Information
Netherlands
