Frisian Language

Frisian language can refer to:

  • The Frisian languages, a closely related group of three Germanic languages:
    • West Frisian language (fy), spoken in the Netherlands and often known there simply as the Frisian language
    • Saterland Frisian (frs) or East Frisian language, spoken in Lower Saxony, Germany
    • North Frisian language (frr), spoken in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
  • East Frisian Low Saxon, the West Low German dialect of East Frisia, Lower Saxony, Germany

Famous quotes containing the word language:

    “This is of the loon—I do not mean its laugh, but its looning,—is a long-drawn call, as it were, sometimes singularly human to my ear,—hoo-hoo-ooooo, like the hallooing of a man on a very high key, having thrown his voice into his head. I have heard a sound exactly like it when breathing heavily through my own nostrils, half awake at ten at night, suggesting my affinity to the loon; as if its language were but a dialect of my own, after all.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)