Western Frisian
Frysk
Western Frisian is an Indo-European language spoken in Netherlands, by about 845.1 thousand people.
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West Frisian (Westerlauwersk Frysk; Dutch: Westerlauwers Fries), or simply Frisian (Frysk [frisk]; Dutch: Fries [fris]), 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.
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Written down
Alle minsken wurde frij en gelyk yn weardigens en rjochten berne. Hja hawwe ferstân en gewisse meikrigen en hearre har foar inoar oer yn in geast fan bruorskip te hâlden en te dragen.
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).
Words in Western Frisian
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| mother | mem | |
| father | heit | |
| child | bern | |
| man | man | |
| woman | frou | |
| person | persoan | |
| name | namme | |
| friend | freon | |
| eye | each | |
| ear | ear | |
| nose | noas | |
| tooth | tosk | |
| tongue | tonge | |
| hand | hân | |
| heart | hert | |
| head | holle | |
| blood | bloed | |
| bone | bonke | |
| skin | hûd | |
| knee | knibbel | |
| breast | boarst | |
| liver | lever | |
| water | wetter | |
| fire | fjoer | |
| sun | sinne | |
| moon | moanne | |
| star | stjer | |
| sky | himel | |
| rain | rein | |
| snow | snie |
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Vocabulary
- WestphalicIndo-European54% alike
- Northern FrisianIndo-European53% alike
- Saterland FrisianIndo-European52% alike
- Low GermanIndo-European51% alike
- Eastern FrisianIndo-European51% alike
- GroningsIndo-European50% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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