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Preferred term

fryWestern Frisian  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • West Frisian (Frysk, []) is a language spoken mostly in the province of Friesland (Fryslân) in the north of the Netherlands. West Frisian is the name by which this language is usually known outside the Netherlands, to distinguish it from the closely related Frisian languages of Saterland Frisian and North Frisian, which are spoken in Germany. Within the Netherlands however, the West Frisian language is the language of the province of Friesland and is almost always called simply "Frisian": Fries in Dutch, and Frysk in Frisian; Westfries (literally: West Frisian) is the Dutch name of the West Frisian dialect of the Dutch language, spoken in West Friesland, a region in the province of North Holland.

Entry terms

  • Frisian, Western
  • West Frisian language

ISO 639-1 code

  • fy

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • fry

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • fry

ISO 639-3 code

  • fry

Notation

  • fry

In other languages

  • frison

    French

  • frison occidental
  • Frison occidental
  • Westfriesisch

    German

  • Westfriesische Sprache
  • frisone occidentale

    Italian

  • Dialetto frisone occidentale
  • Portuguese

  • frísico ocidental
  • frisón occidental

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/fry

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