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Sentence Examples The Frisian language is taught in the public schools, but not in the private schools. The overwhelming sense I came away with was that the Frisians are proud of being Frisian and Dutch and are comfortable in their dual identity. Besides, any genetic tree that places English more than one node away from Frisian is too arbitrary to be credible. The Frisian Academy sponsors scholarly publications on Frisian history and culture, including a definitive historical dictionary. Modern Low German is most closely related to High German, Frisian and the Anglo-Saxon ancestor of Modern English. The tribes that came west also split up and developed Proto-Germanic into the languages German, Dutch, and Frisian. In particular, it would be very much in keeping with Frisian practice in this period to use just a single name. They were paid the compliment of being imitated in larger numbers by Frisian forgers later in the century. He is straight talking and straight shooting in the best tradition of northern Holland's Frisian population. Johannes Stinstra was a Mennonite preacher in the Frisian town of Harlingen. The 1991 state budget included an item for the cultural activities of the Frisian ethnic group. The world's first spy novel takes place in Frisian waters mostly off of the German coast not long before World War I begins. There are several Frisian museums, libraries, archives and cultural centres in both countries. He brought no treasures back from the battle to the Frisian king but died in the fight. A Frisian fleet arrived in 1218, and it was John and the Frisians who decided to attack at Damietta. Anglo-Saxon migrants, possibly with some Frisian elements, settled early in East Anglia in the late 5th and early 6th centuries. She also carried on her research, collecting caterpillars on the Frisian heaths and moors and making notes and drawings. It is the language in everyday use everywhere but in Friesland, where ancient Frisian is spoken. An attempt is made to heal the long-standing feud between the Danes and the Frisians by the marriage of the Frisian king Finn to Hildeburh. Closely related to Old Saxon and Old Frisian, it forms part of the Germanic grouping within the Indo-European language system. Show More Sentences The other characteristic feature, which Frisian has carried on a step farther than English, is the assibilation of velars before front vowels. His annotations to an incunable edition of Old Frisian law reveal his interest in Anglo-Saxon canon law. So far, I have only encountered this theme in Frisian texts. Frisian is a Germanic language similar to both Dutch and English. This farthest extent of Frisian territory is known as Frisia Magna. At the beginning of the eighth century, Anglo-Saxon and Frisian merchants had sailed up the Seine to Paris, carrying the wine to be sold at the fairs of Saint-Denis. In the Netherlands, Frisian, Turkish, and Arabic are also spoken. Since the 19th century, Frisian has revived as a literary language. No one is demanding that English-speaking Americans be forced to learn Navajo, any more than anyone is demanding that the Dutch of Amsterdam learn Frisian. About half of Friesland's 600,000 residents speak both Dutch and Frisian. When the French occupied the Netherlands, the name for the Frisian department was Frise. Dialects with strong West Frisian substrates, including Low German and Low Franconian, are also spoken in West Frisia. In the northern province of Groningen, people speak Gronings, a Low Saxon dialect with a strong Frisian substrate. It is the largest and most populated island of the West Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea. Its grammar was similar to that of modern German, and its closest relative is Old Frisian. This means that full competence in both Frisian and Dutch is aimed at all pupils in the province, whether they speak Frisian or Dutch at home. This had begun the effort to continuously preserve the Frisian language, which continues unto this day. The trait is believed to have Frisian rather than Hollandic origins, however. The Stellingwerven have been West Frisian for centuries, and Groningen spoke East Frisian in the Middle Ages. Her control of Flanders was challenged by the brother of her late husband, Robert the Frisian. Show More Sentences As a West Germanic language, Dutch is related to other languages in that group such as West Frisian, English and German. Geld or Jeld was the Old English and Old Frisian word for money, and still is in Dutch, Frisian, German and Afrikaans. This farthest extent of Frisian territory is sometimes referred to as Frisia Magna. West Frisian is spoken by around 354,000 native speakers and is not threatened. Frisian historical settlement areas, showing areas where a Frisian language is spoken today. Note that the Old Saxon and Old Frisian verbs given here are unattested, almost certainly due to the small nature of the respective corpora. Icelandic, Norwegian and Frisian have retained two productive classes of weak verbs. Around the edges of the North Sea are sizeable islands and archipelagos, including Shetland, Orkney, and the Frisian Islands. Old English is one of the West Germanic languages, and its closest relatives are Old Frisian and Old Saxon. Old English is a West Germanic language closely related to Old Frisian and Old Saxon. Frisian is spoken among half a million people who live on the southern fringes of the North Sea in the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark. However, its minority languages include Sorbian, Romani, Danish and North Frisian, which are officially recognised. Standard German is a West Germanic language and is closely related to and classified alongside Low German, Dutch, Afrikaans, Frisian and English. Around 879, another Viking raided the Frisian lands, Godfrid, Duke of Frisia. The language and culture of most of the people who lived in the County of Holland were originally Frisian. West Frisian has a formal status for government correspondence in that province. The equivalent word is also to be found in Frisian, Dutch, Norwegian, and Icelandic. Frysk Hynder is a Dutch single malt, distilled and bottled in the Frisian Us Heit Distillery. They are common along much of the eastern coast of the United States and the Frisian Islands. The Danish Wadden Sea Islands and the German North Frisian Islands stretch along the southwest coast of Jutland in the German Bight. Show More Sentences Generally, the term Frisian Islands is used for the islands where Frisian is spoken and the population is ethnically Frisian. The Dutch West Frisian and the German East Frisian Islands are barrier islands. The devastation by floods and the losses of land weakened the Frisian community. Since 1956, West Frisian has an official status along with and equal to Dutch in the province of Friesland. It is used in many domains of Frisian society, among which are education, legislation, and administration. Also, they can take the oath in Frisian in courts anywhere in the Netherlands. Primary education in Friesland was made bilingual in 1956, which means West Frisian can be used as a teaching medium. Within ISO 639 West Frisian falls under the codes 'fy' and 'fry', which were assigned to the collective Frisian languages. In the Netherlands, West Frisian can refer to the local language spoken in the regions of Hoorn, Enkhuizen and Medemblik. Note that in Germany, Low German has replaced the Frisian languages in many regions. Some classify the northern dialects of Low German together with English and Frisian as the North Sea Germanic or Ingvaeonic languages. North Frisian is a minority language of Germany, spoken by about 10,000 people in North Frisia. The language is part of the larger group of the West Germanic Frisian languages. North Frisian is closely related to the Saterland Frisian language of Northwest Germany and West Frisian which is spoken in the Netherlands. The Eiderstedt Frisian on the Eiderstedt peninsula were abandoned in favour of Low German during the 17th and 18th centuries. Due to the large number of dialects there is no original native name for the North Frisian language as such. The North Frisian dialects differ from modern Standard German by a more diverse system of vowels and consonants. Officially the number of North Frisian speakers ranges from 8,000 to 10,000 but linguists propose significantly lower numbers. North Frisian is an endangered language, as in most places children no longer learn it. The other dialects are in fact seriously endangered, like Karrharde Frisian, Central Goesharde and Halligen Frisian. Show More Sentences The Frisian languages spoken in Germany are excluded from the German dialects. Danish, German, Low German and North Frisian are the official languages of the state. During the language change in the 19th century some Danish and North Frisian dialects in Southern Schleswig were replaced by German. The Germanic flotilla was destroyed in a naval engagement, Gannascus was driven out, and Frisian territory was forcibly occupied. The other Frisian languages, meanwhile, have been influenced by German, Low German, and Danish. The North Frisian language especially is further segmented into several strongly diverse dialects. An increasing number of native Dutch speakers in the province are learning Frisian as a second language. Speakers who had West Frisian as their first language often maintained the West Frisian system of no homophony when speaking West Frisian. Speakers of the many Frisian dialects may also be found in the United States and Canada. Recent attempts have allowed Frisian be used somewhat more in some of the domains of education, media and public administration. Moreover, Frisian runs the risk of dissolving into Dutch, especially in Friesland, where both languages are used. His example was not followed until the 19th century, when entire generations of Frisian authors and poets appeared. Under Charlemagne codifications were also made of the Saxon law and the Frisian law. A Carolingian denarius replaced the Merovingian one, and the Frisian penning, in Gaul from 755 to the eleventh century. Charles ordered the Frisian pagan shrines destroyed, and so wholly subjugated the populace that the region was peaceful for twenty years after. Around 879, Godfrid arrived in Frisian lands as the head of a large force that terrorised the Low Countries. Frisian mercenaries were hired to assist the Roman invasion of Britain in the capacity of cavalry. In general, mutual intelligibility between Dutch and Afrikaans is better than between Dutch and Frisian or between Danish and Swedish. Thus, it affected High German, Low German, Dutch, Frisian and Old English alike. They were likely used from the 5th century onward, recording Old English and Old Frisian. Show More Sentences Old Frisian evolved into Middle Frisian, spoken from the 16th to the 19th century. This region is referred to as Greater Frisia or Frisia Magna, and many of the areas within it still treasure their Frisian heritage. The migration to Britain caused a further split into early Old English and early Old Frisian. The West Frisian language and its urban dialects are spoken by the majority of the inhabitants. In Groningen, on the other hand, Frisian sentiments faded away at the end of the 16th century. Although the Frisian regions have their own separate flags, Frisia as a whole has not historically had a flag of its own. Most speakers of West Frisian live in the province of Friesland in the north of the Netherlands. The largest concentrations of Frisian speakers outside the Netherlands are located in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. At that time, the Frisian language was spoken along the entire southern North Sea coast. For example, the West Frisian for cheese and church is tsiis and tsjerke, whereas in Dutch they are kaas and kerk. His example was not followed until the nineteenth century, when entire generations of Frisian authors and poets appeared. In 1951, Frisian language activists, protesting the exclusive use of Dutch in the courts, caused a riot in Leeuwarden. This committee recommended that the Frisian language would receive legal status as a minority language. Several thousand people in Nordfriesland and Heligoland in Germany speak a collection of North Frisian dialects that are often unintelligible to each other. During the 12th century Frisian noblemen and the city of Groningen founded the Upstalsboom League under the slogan of 'Frisian freedom' to counter feudalizing tendencies. Hence, a close relationship exists between Old Frisian and Old English. Generally, Old Frisian phonologically resembles Old English. Because the instruction manual was Frisian, Yves couldn't read it. Other West Germanic languages related to Dutch are German, English and the Frisian languages and the unstandardised languages Low German and Yiddish. It is the most widely spoken of the three Frisian languages. Show More Sentences Compare with West Frisian foks, Dutch vos, and German Fuchs. In the 9th and 10th centuries, the Vikings raided the largely defenceless Frisian and Frankish towns lying on the coast and along the rivers of the Low Countries. Apart from the use of West Frisian as a first language, it is also spoken as a second language by about 120,000 people in the province of Friesland. The dialect spoken in the eastern area is thus called Wood Frisian. In the early Middle Ages the Frisian lands stretched from the area around Bruges, in what is now Belgium, to the river Weser, in northern Germany. There are many seaside resorts on the Dutch coast, chiefly in the provinces of North Holland, South Holland and Zeeland, as well as on the West Frisian Islands. This similarity was reinforced in the late Middle Ages by the Ingvaeonic sound shift, which affected Frisian and English, but the other West Germanic varieties hardly at all. It lies between the coast of northwestern continental Europe and the range of Frisian Islands, forming a shallow body of water with tidal flats and wetlands. Up until the fifteenth century West Frisian was widely spoken and written, but from 1500 onwards it became an almost exclusively oral language, mainly used in rural areas. The only plan ever to be carried out was the construction of a causeway from the Frisian Holwerd to Ameland, in 1872, which was not very successful. In rural areas Northern Low Saxon, a dialect of Low German, and Saterland Frisian, a variety of Frisian language, are still spoken, but the number of speakers is declining. The northwestern area of Lower Saxony, which lies on the coast of the North Sea, is called East Frisia and the seven East Frisian Islands offshore are popular with tourists. In the west, the Jade extended far into the Frisian peninsula. Frisian was spoken along the entire southern North Sea coast, and it is still the language most closely related to English among the living languages of continental Europe. Other West Germanic languages related to Afrikaans are German, English and the Frisian languages and the unstandardised languages Low German and Yiddish. Stadsfries is not Frisian, but a Dutch dialect influenced by West Frisian. The shift took several centuries to spread north, appearing in Dutch only during the 12th century, and in Frisian and Low German not for another century or two after that. The local corresponding North Frisian dialects are still in use. To the North and Northwest, it abuts the Danish and the Frisian languages. Ingvaeonic, also known as North Sea Germanic, is a postulated grouping of the West Germanic languages that comprises Old Frisian, Old English and Old Saxon. Show More Sentences Related verbs and nouns exist in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Old English, Old Frisian, Old Saxon, Middle Dutch, Dutch, Old High German, Middle High German, and German. The Ried fan de Fryske Beweging is an organization which works for the preservation of the West Frisian language and culture in the Dutch province of Friesland. Old Frisian is a West Germanic language spoken between the 8th and 16th centuries in the area between the Rhine and Weser on the European North Sea coast. Nevertheless, Saterland Frisian and most dialects of North Frisian are seriously endangered and West Frisian is considered as vulnerable to being endangered. The phonological system of the North Frisian dialects is strongly being influenced by Standard German and is slowly adapting to that of the German language. With a number of native speakers probably even less than 10,000 and decreasing use in mainland North Frisia, the North Frisian language is endangered. Typically one distinguishes between the following ten dialects that have been spoken since the beginning of Frisian linguistic studies in the 19th century. The mainland and insular dialects clearly differ from each other because they were shaped by Frisian immigrants during several different centuries. By the end of the 6th century, Frisian territory had expanded westward to the North Sea coast and, in the 7th century, southward down to Dorestad. The old Strand Frisian was presumably closest to Halligen Frisian. Up until the 15th century Frisian was a language widely spoken and written, but from 1500 onwards it became an almost exclusively oral language, mainly used in rural areas. Despite the strong differences among the North Frisian dialects there are still some traits of phonology that are more or less common to all dialects. In the province of Friesland, in the north of the Netherlands, a high percentage of the population, about 350000, speak Frisian as their first language. Examples from Classical Literature I made a close friend of a Frisian mare on the steamer from Rotterdam to Dort. Those are the Frisian Islands, and they stretch for 120 miles or so eastward. The answer to this question is to be found in the Frisian version of the story. He sent for me and asked me a lot of questions, specially about Kiel and the Frisian Islands. That from the northern of these dialects we have the Modern Frisian of Friesland. The Frisian religion is extremely simple, and pure Monotheism. No true Frisian shall speak ill of the faults of his neighbours. The Frisian tribute of hides was perhaps an example of this. Dutch Lady is legendary in Malaysia and Vietnam, Foremost is a leading brand in Thailand, Frisian Flag is widely known in Indonesia. The following is a specimen of the Frisian of Gysbert Japicx, in metre. This paper was read at a meeting of the Frisian Society, February. In the Netherlands, the Frisian migrant gang workers described by Ineke van Beersum, harvesting flax, digging potatoes, and drying chicory, sang all day to help pass the time. It's not only bottles that land on the Frisian Island in the Wadden Sea. He explained how the Dutch Holstein Frisian cows have been bred over generations to become the premier breed of cattle for high quality and high quantity dairy production. Find more words! 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