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	Frisian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frisian is a Germanic language, or group of closely related languages, spoken by around half a million members of an ethnic group living on the southern fringes of the North Sea in the Netherlands and Germany.
		Frisian is officially recognised and protected as a minority language in Germany and is one of the two official languages in the Dutch province of Fryslân.
		Originally, Frisian was the language closest related to English, but after at least five hundred years of being subjected to the influence of Dutch it is obvious to most observers that nowadays it bears a greater similarity to Dutch than to English.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frisian_language (1102 words)

	AllRefer.com - Frisian language (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia
		Frisian language, member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages).
		North Frisian is spoken along the North Sea coast of Germany and on the Frisian Islands, and East Frisian is spoken farther inland in NW Germany.
		Frisian is a subject of instruction in the schools of Friesland and also has a literature of its own.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/Frisianl.html (247 words)

	Regional language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A regional language is a language spoken in a part of a country - it may be a small area, a federal state or province, or a wider area.
		Hungarian, a Finno-Ugric language, is a regional language of Romania whose official language, Romanian is a Romance language.
		Catalan, the official language of Andorra, is a regional language in Spain, France and Italy.
	www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Regional_language (452 words)

	Frisian languages and pronunciation
		Frisian is a West Germanic language spoken in Germany and the Netherlands.
		North Frisian is spoken in Schleswig-Holstein in the rural district of North Frisia (Nordfriesland).
		Sater Frisian is spoken in the three villages of Ramsloh, Scharrel and Strücklingen in the Community of the Saterland in the Northwest corner of the Lower Saxon County of Cloppenburg.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/frisian.htm (559 words)

	West Germanic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		West Germanic is the largest branch of the Germanic family of languages, including such languages as English, Dutch, and German.
		During the Middle Ages, the West Germanic languages were separated by the insular development of Middle English on one hand, and by the second Germanic sound shift on the continent on the other.
		The linguistic contact of the Viking settlers of the Danelaw with the Anglo-Saxons left traces in the English language, and is suspected to have facilitated the collapse of Old English grammar that resulted in Middle English from the 12th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/West_Germanic_language (406 words)

	Frisian
		Frisian is a West Germanic language (see characterisation of the Germanic language family) which is spoken by about 400,000 people in the province of Friesland in the Netherlands.
		Alongside the national language (Dutch) and the regional language (Frisian) a number of dialects are also spoken, viz the dialects of Stellingwerf (a Saxon dialect), the area of Het Bildt (in the north west) and Town Frisian or Stedsk in the towns (see map).
		Frisian today, as can be seen from the studie van Gorter en Jonkman (1994), is the first language of 54.8% of the inhabitants of the province, and about 94% have a passive knowledge of the language.
	www.ned.univie.ac.at /Publicaties/taalgeschiedenis/en/fries.htm (1152 words)

	English language article - English language West Germanic language England 2002 lingua franca United Kingdom - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		English is descended from the language spoken by the Germanic tribes, the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes.
		Frisian is a language spoken by approximately half a million people in the Dutch province of Friesland (Fryslân), in nearby areas of Germany, and on a few islands in the North Sea.
		It is the language most often studied as a foreign language in Europe (32.6 percent) and Japan, followed by French, German and Spanish.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/English_language (2466 words)

	English language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The English language is a West Germanic language that originated in England from Old English (Anglo-Saxon), which in turn developed from languages brought by settlers from northern Germany.
		The English language belongs to the western sub-branch of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European family of languages.
		English is the most widely used and learned "foreign" language in the world, and, as such, many linguists believe it is no longer the exclusive cultural emblem of "native English speakers," but rather a language that is absorbing aspects of cultures worldwide as it grows in use.
	www.peekskill.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/English_language (3141 words)

	Encyclopedic information on Frisian language and literature
		Frisian Literature, writings in the Frisian language, spoken in the Dutch province of Friesland and the Frisian Islands.
		Frisian Language, language of the historical Frisian people, now an official language in the Dutch province of Friesland, with dialects still spoken on the Frisian Islands, and in a few German villages.
		Frisian was once the prominent tongue along the North Sea coast and on nearby islands, from the present Dutch-Belgian border to the modern German-Danish border.
	www.geocities.com /tseadbruinja/engels/languageliterature.htm (583 words)

	Culture of the Frisians
		This is the birth of the Frisian language.
		North Frisian was spoken in an area on the North Sea coast on the Danish/German border.
		The Frisian language has a long history of suppression by the Dutch government, and only in 1980 did it become a regular course on primary schools in Friesland (Dutch is still the first language).
	www.fehmarn-genealogy.com /culture_of_the_frisians.htm (1043 words)

	GERMAN LANGUAGE - LoveToKnow Article on GERMAN LANGUAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As thu middle ages did not produce a German Schriftsprache or literary language in the modern sense of the word, which as is undoubtedly the case in Modern Germanmight have influenced the spoken langunge (Umgangssprache), the history of the language in its earlier stages is a history of different dialects.
		The High Franconian dialects, that is to say, east and south (or south-Rheriish) Franconian, which are separated broadly speaking by the river Neckar, comprise the language spoken in a part of Baden, the dialects of the Main valley from Wurzburg upwards to Bamberg, the dialect of Nuremberg and probably of the Vogtland (Plauen) and Egerland.
		The language spoken during the Old High German period, that is to say, down to about the year I05o, is remarkable for the fulness and richness of its vowel-sounds in word-stems as well as in inflections.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GE/GERMAN_LANGUAGE.htm (7834 words)

	U.S.ENGLISH Foundation Official Language Research - Germany: Background
		North Frisian is one of the indigenous languages in the German “Land” of Schleswig-Holstein and it is spoken in the rural district of North Frisia (Kreis Nordfriesland), on the west coast just south of the Danish-German border including the North Frisian Islands.
		Frisian is traditionally an oral language and only after the beginning of the 19th Century it started to be used as a written medium.
		Sorbian is the Slavic language, that is foremost present in the east of Germany: in Sachsen (two-thirds) and in Brandenburg (one-third).
	www.us-english.org /foundation/research/olp/viewResearch.asp?CID=57&TID=2 (2433 words)

	FRISIAN LANGUAGE FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Frisian is officially recognised and protected as a minority_language in Germany and is one of the two official languages in the Dutch province of FryslÃ¢n.
		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.
		Thus the modern languages are unintelligible to each other today, partly due to the marks Low_Franconian_languages (such as Dutch) and Low Saxon/Low German have left on Frisian and partly due to the vast influence some languages, in particular French, have had on English throughout the centuries.
	www.witwib.com /Frisian_language (1059 words)

	ipedia.com: Frisian language Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Frisian (varyingly Frysk, Frasch, Fresk, or Friisk) is a language spoken by a small ethnic group living in the northwestern part of Europe.
		There is such a strong difference between the island and mainland forms of the North Frisian language that it has been speculated that the mainland and insular areas may have been originally populated by two separate waves of ancient Frisian colonizers, these migrations occurring in entirely different eras.
		Frisian is officially recognized and protected as a minority language in Germany and the Netherlands.
	www.ipedia.com /frisian_language.html (685 words)

	Writing English - Proofreading and Copyediting Services (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		West Frisian is spoken in Friesland, the northern Dutch coastal province, including the Frisian islands of Terschelling and Schiermonnikoog.
		North Frisian is spoken along the west coast of the Schleswig area of Germany and the North Frisian islands.
		The Frisians subsequently became part of the Roman Empire; were later overrun by Angles and Saxons on the way to England, and much later conquered by Charlemagne and converted to Christianity.
	www.writingenglish.com /frisian.htm (284 words)

	Verbix -- Germanic. Conjugate verbs in 50+ languages
		West Germanic: Anglo-Frisian group - the English language and the Frisian language; Netherlandic-German group - Netherlandic, or Dutch-Flemish and the Low German dialects, Afrikaans, the German language or High German, and the Yiddish language.
		The Germanic languages are related in the sense that they can be shown to be different historical developments of a single earlier parent language.
		Although for some language families there are written records of the parent language (e.g., for the Romance languages, which are variant developments of Latin), in the case of Germanic no written records of the parent language exist.
	www.verbix.com /languages/germanic.asp (837 words)

	Nordfriisk Instituut
		The East Frisian language has died out in its country of origin and is in these days spoken by only approximately 2.000 people in the Saterland, a region in the district of Oldenburg, whereas the West Frisian language community in the Dutch province of Friesland counts almost 400.000 speakers.
		Throughout the centuries Frisian was the language commonly used in the families and villages.
		The Frisian history is as colourful and fascinating as the language region North Frisia.
	www.nordfriiskinstituut.de /englisch.html (3297 words)

	LINGUIST List 14.1478: Language Description: Koenig, et al. (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		German is the official language or one of the official languages in Austria, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Germany.
		Dutch is the official language of the Netherlands, Belgium, Surinam and the former Dutch Antilles.
		West Frisian has 400, 000 speakers and is spoken in the Dutch province of Friesland.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/14/14-1478.html (1510 words)

	frg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Frisian Reference Grammar begins with an introduction that places West Frisian in its historical and geographical context, briefly discussing its relationship to closely related Germanic languages like English, as well as dialectal variation within Frisian itself and the current sociolinguistic status of the language.
		Chapter 2 introduces the sounds of Frisian and the phonetic and phonological rules that govern its pronunciation, including the well-known phenomenon of breaking.
		Major changes in the second edition are an updated bibliography that includes references to all major recent work on Frisian, as well as revised textual notes, which also have been modified to reflect research on Frisian since the publication of the original grammar.
	www.tiersma.com /FRISIAN/FRG.HTM (348 words)

	frisian
		Frisian is my native language and is generally regarded as the closest language to English that is still spoken.
		West Frisian is spoken in the Dutch province of Friesland.
		West Frisian is spoken throughout the province of Fryslân, with the exception
	www.tiersma.com /FRISIAN/FRISIAN.HTM (2747 words)

	Ethnologue 14 report for language code:FRR
		The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
		Schleswig-Holstein, on the coastal strip between the rivers Eider in the south and Wiedau in the north, and adjacent islands of Föhr, Amrum, Sylt, Norstrand, Pellworm, the ten islands of the Halligen group, and Helgoland.
		Not intelligible to Eastern Frisian of Germany or Western Frisian of the Netherlands except to a few educated bilingual speakers of West Frisian.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=FRR (239 words)

	Language general (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		On this basis it is supposed that the Old Frisian long vowel phonemic system is exploded in the 14th century, due to a sudden appearance of stretched vowels, chiefly in loan-words.
		Summary - The paradigms of the monosyllabic verbs in West Frisian and in Mooringer North Frisian show double patterns, which are lacking in Old Frisian and Saterfrisian.
		, is important in the field of Frisian language and culture.
	www.geocities.com /athens/atrium/6641/language.htm (338 words)

	Euskal Herria Journal \| Basque Language and Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Basque is the sole surviving non-Indo-European language in Western Europe, it is classified as a language isolate.
		Estonian, Finnish and Saami (Lapp) are languages belonging to the Finnic branch of Finno-Ugric, Hungarian represents Ugric.
		The existence of loanwords from Basque and/or Proto-Basque“ in languages of the Iberian peninsula is beyond doubt and beyond dispute.
	www.ehj-navarre.org /blessons/mowstr.html (6025 words)

	West Germanic language
		There was never a West Germanic proto-language from which all the languges currently in the group seem to have derived.
		As such the grouping is more of a geographical convenience to categorize languages that share many similarities with each other but also individually compare closely to particular aspects of North Germanic or East Germanic.
		Afrikaans (with a significant influx of vocabulary from Malay and native African languages)
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/west_germanic_language (246 words)

	Frisian language : FrisianLanguage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Frisian (Frysk or Frasch) is a language spoken by a small ethnic group living in the northerwestern part of Europe.
		Frisian consists of several dialects, which are often mutually unintelligible.
		Frisian is highly similar to Old English, and is linguistically classified as the closest existing language to English.
	www.city-search.org /fr/frisianlanguage.html (620 words)

	Language Miniatures 90: The Frisian language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Of all the world's languages, none is a closer 'cousin' to English than Frisian, spoken today in various forms in Northwestern Europe.
		Frisian and English, in other words, in their history have participated in some sound changes that were not shared by the other closely-related German languages.
		All in all, it begins to look more and more as though Frisian is so close to English that it surely ought to be easy to understand, or at least to read.
	home.bluemarble.net /~langmin/miniatures/frisian.htm (757 words)

	language
		West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family that is closely related
		English belongs to the Indo-European family of languages and is therefore related to
		Frisian, spoken by the inhabitants of the Dutch province of Friesland and
	www.auburn.edu /~kuhnwi1/gb/webstuff10am/bill/language.html (632 words)

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