FRISIAN LANGUAGE

member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages). It has a number of dialects and is spoken by more than 300,000 people, most of whom speak West Frisian and live in Friesland, a province of the Netherlands. 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. Speakers of various dialects are also found in the United States. Frisian is a subject of instruction in the schools of Friesland and also has a literature of its own. Of all foreign languages, it is most like English.

See K. Zondag, ed., Bilingual Education in Friesland (1982).

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Let's Do Our Best for the Ancient Tongue: The Welsh Language in the Twentieth Century
Book by Geraint H. Jenkins, Mari A. Williams; University of Wales Press, 2000
Subjects: Wales--Civilization, Welsh Language--20th Century, Welsh Language--History, Welsh Language--Social Aspects
A SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE WELSH LANGUAGE General Editor: Geraint H. Jenkins A SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE WELSH LANGUAGE Other volumes already published in the series: The Welsh Language before the Industrial Revolution, edited by Geraint H. Jenkins...
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The Oxford History of the English Language
Book by Lynda Mugglestone; Oxford University Press, 2006
Subjects: English Language--History
...questioned, but at any rate the Old Frisian language, although known only from a...the postulating of an Anglo-Frisian language as an intermediate stage between...separate Old English and Old Frisian languages, but that view is not favoured...
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The History of the English Language
Book by Oliver Farrar Emerson; Macmillan, 1894
Subjects: English Language--History
...records of these languages date from the seventh...the exception of Frisian, which has been...designate all the languages not affected by...Anglo-Saxon; Old Frisian, the descendant...the most important languages to the student of...nearest akin is Old Frisian, originally spoken...
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Life and Growth of Language: An Outline of Linguistic Science
Book by William Dwight Whitney; D. Appleton & Company, 1875
Subjects: Language And Languages
...SERIES. THE LIFE AND GROWTH or LANGUAGE: AN OUTLINE OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE...mens crude and inconsistent views of language are tending to crystallize into shape...already deeply versed in the facts of language-history, but uncertain and comparatively...
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Language and Languages: An Introduction to Linguistics
Book by Willem L. Graff; D. Appleton, 1932
Subjects: Language And Languages
...Romance Languages 376...Anglo-Frisian 388...Frisian 390...TEM NON-INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES Asianic...
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journal articles on: Frisian Language  - 34 results

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Teaching German Modal Particles: A Corpus-Based Approach
Journal article by Martina Mollering; Language, Learning & Technology, Vol. 5, 2001
Subjects: German language--Study and teaching, Grammar, Grammar, Comparative and general--Particles, Language and languages--Analysis
...the English language by Schiffrin (1987). Particles of the modal particle type are prevalent in West-Germanic languages: Dutch, Frisian, and German (e.g., de Vriendt, Vandeweghe, Van de Craen, 1991; Abraham, 1991a for the link between German...
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Fabula: A Bilingual Multimedia Authoring Environment for Children Exploring Minority Languages
Journal article by Viv Edwards, Lyn Pemberton, John Knight, Frank Monaghan; Language, Learning & Technology, Vol. 6, 2002
Subjects: Computer assisted instruction--Planning, Computer-assisted instruction--Planning, Europe, Fabula (Multimedia authoring software)--Usage, Language and languages, Second languages--Study and teaching
...bilingual books, concentrating on "languages of lesser diffusion." The language pairs we currently cater for are Welsh/English, Irish/English, Basque/French, Catalan/Spanish and Frisian/Dutch. We shall present a brief description of the Fabula software...
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Etymologisch Woordenboek Van Het Nederlands (EWN)
Journal article by Graeme Dunphy; The Modern Language Review, Vol. 101, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (EWN) (Book)--Book reviews
...to the Belgian form of the language; Indonesian, South African...variants are noted, as are Frisian. In all, some 15,000 lemmata...confronted, and the Indo-European language family as an object of study...likely to be loanwords from the language of the pre-Indo-European inhabitants...
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The EmLit Project: European Minority Literatures in Translation
Journal article by Glanville Price; The Modern Language Review, Vol. 101, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The EmLit Project: European Minority Literatures in Translation (Book)--Book reviews
...literature, there is no strong case for giving them precedence over such undeniably European literary languages as Basque, Breton, Corsican, Faroese, Frisian, Irish, Occitan, Sami, and Sardinian. (Though the title does not make this clear, the scope of...
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Cleansing the Images: Wordsworth, Rome, and the Rise of Historicism
Journal article by Peter J. Manning; Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 33, 1991
Subjects: Literature--History And Criticism, Philology
...has argued, for these men language bore the folk spirit, and in...Holstein. The image of the Frisian freehold peasantry of his youth...going to Scotland to learn the language of Ossian" (Bernal, 301...mythology is only a disease of language. Well might a man tremble when...
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High Season in a Low Country: Holland Has More Summer Festivals Than You Can Shake a Tulip At
Magazine article by Celia Wren; American Theatre, Vol. 19, October 2002
Subjects: Festivals--Netherlands, Netherlands--Art, Street art--Netherlands, Theater--Netherlands
...only professional theatre group working in the Frisian language. Mounted offshore during low tide--audiences...the gradual extinction of the worlds minority languages. Performed in Welsh, Frisian, Basque, Occitan (spoken in the south of France...
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Why Are the Dutch Invading Governors Island? to Show Americans the "Moving Landscape Art" (and Other Out-of-the-Box Works) They've Made De Rigueur at Home
Magazine article by Randy Gener; American Theatre, Vol. 26, September 2009
Subjects: Theater companies--Membership, Theater companies--Services
...families and young people cycling from show to show (in the Frisian dialect, oerol means "everywhere"). ILLUSTRATION OMITTED In...emotionally engaging events than a performance that depends on language alone. "The whole idea of New Yorkers going to Governors Island...
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Still Life in Mobile Homes: Modern Travel Writing Is in Crisis, Too Often No More Than an Indulgence of Ego. but the Books of Helena Drysdale Have a Rare Difference
Magazine article by Jason Cowley; New Statesman, Vol. 130, November 19, 2001
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Mother Tongues: Travels Through Tribal Europe (Book)--Reviews
...for their local language and culture. Fortunately...to find a native Frisian speaker, she writes...or Macedonian, or Frisian, or Walloon, she...preserving minority languages. "The speakers of...their culture and language to die; or they...Welsh and British, Frisian and German. Most...
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This Month around the World
Magazine article; Campaigns & Elections, Vol. 28, October 2006
Subjects: Demography--Economic aspects, Demography--Social aspects, Ecuador--Demographic aspects, Ecuador--Political aspects, Netherlands--Demographic aspects, Netherlands--Political aspects, Nicaragua--Demographic aspects, Nicaragua--Political aspects, Thailand--Demographic aspects, Thailand--Political aspects
...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED Demographics Population: 16,491,461 Language: Dutch, Frisian Internet Users: 10,806,328 NICARAGUA Election: President...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED Demographics Population: 5,570,129 Language: Spanish, Miskito Internet Users: 125,000 THAILAND...
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An American Abroad
Magazine article by Bruce Bawer; The Advocate, April 27, 1999
Subjects: Americans abroad--Europe, Americans abroad--Personal narratives, Americans in Europe--Personal narratives, Patriotism--Personal narratives
...two closest languages to English are Dutch and Frisian (the Netherlands second language)--yet both sound, to American ears, far more...Romantic that I am, I wanted to learn a useless language.) In a way it didnt really matter where I...
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Vacationing Where Soccer Is King
Newspaper article by Darryl Mellema; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 12, 2008
...those who ever wondered, Mellema is a Frisian Dutch last name. And before you wonder...On the flight over, there were Dutch-language newspapers to read. In my case, that...newspapers to view" because I cant read the language of my admittedly distant ancestors. But...
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Marriage a la Mode? There's No Such Thing; AND INCIDENTALLY
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 23, 2007
Subjects: Marriage
...Gothic wadi, meaning pledge, through Old Norse vethja, Old Frisian weddia, and Old English weddian. The wedding involves a bride...cause occasional differences of opinion. The real loss to the language should marriage cease to occupy a prominent role in society...
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Grannie's Tipple at Teatime
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 27, 1996
...measures just over 2sq km and has a population of almost 2,000, whose main language is German, plus a distinct local dialect. Its first inhabitants are thought to have been Frisian fishermen before 1402 when it came under the control of Schleswig-Holstein...
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POST PUZZLER 50 for Fun; Phil Brown's Trivia Quiz
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), April 17, 2008
...wielded by medieval English nobleman Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, earned him what nickname? 34 West Frisian is an official language of which EU country? 35 Which musical instrument, popularised in 19th century Europe by Russian Jewish musician...
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Zapfoed! Another Hacker Is Intercepted; AND INCIDENTALLY
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), December 1, 2006
Subjects: Computer hackers
...innermost secrets were revealed are said to have been bugged; if language had taken a slightly different course, they might have been...information on another computer system. The word comes from the Old Frisian hackia and Middle High German hacken, and identifies the cutting...
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Frisian Language
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FRISIAN LANGUAGE member of the...languages (see Germanic languages ). It has a number...of whom speak West Frisian and live in Friesland...the United States. Frisian is a subject of instruction...own. Of all foreign languages, it is most like...
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English Language
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...records exist of preinvasion forms of the language. The language most closely related to English is the West Germanic language Frisian . The history of English is an aspect of the history of the English people and their development. Thus in the 9th...
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German Language
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...languages in which the second sound shift did not take place, such as Dutch, Frisian, and English. Distinctive Features Besides differences in word order, the German language is unlike English in that German makes extensive use of inflectional endings...
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Friesland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...rivers and has many picturesque lakes. The Frisians, a Germanic people who lived in formerly...by the Franks in the 8th cent. Their language, which differs considerably from Dutch...recognized by the independence-minded Frisians. In 1498, Emperor Maximilian I bestowed...
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Indo-European Family of Languages, The
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Afrikaans , Dutch , English , Flemish , Frisian , Plattdeutsch (see German language ) Greek Aeolic * , Arcadian * , Attic...Kuchean) * Subfamily Group Subgroup Languages and Principal Dialects...
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