The Frisian /ˈfriːʒən/ languages are a closely related group of Germanic languages spoken by about 500000 members of Frisian ethnic groups who live on the southern fringes of the North Sea in the Netherlands Germany and Denmark. The Frisian dialects are close living languages to English after Scots. However modern English and Frisian are mostly unintelligible to each other.
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family
Germanic languages, West Germanic languages, Anglo-Frisian languages
language regulator or academy
Fryske Akademy
spoken in
Friesland, Germany, Lower Saxony, Netherlands, Schleswig-Holstein
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