Newsgroups: soc.culture.belgium,soc.culture.netherlands,sci.lang
Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news2.harvard.edu!news2.near.net!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!redstone.interpath.net!sas!mozart.unx.sas.com!MVS.sas.com!EURMXK
From: EURMXK@MVS.sas.com
Subject: Re: Frisian, was: Flemish and Dutch
Sender: MVS NNTP News Reader <NNMVS@MVS.sas.com>
Message-ID: <19950502074108EURMXK@MVS.sas.com>
Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 11:41:00 GMT
X-Nntp-Posting-Host: sdcmvs.mvs.sas.com
References: <3np80n$r8c@solitaire.cv.nrao.edu>
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Lines: 34

In article <3np80n$r8c@solitaire.cv.nrao.edu>,
gvanmoor@nrao.edu (Gustaaf Van Moorsel) writes:
 
>In article <1995Apr27.141200.4826@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>, stevens@maths.warwick.ac.uk (Jan Stevens) writes:
>
>> The German Frisians (Ostfriesen)
>> do not speak Frisian but a Saxon dialect, which is very close to
>> the one in Groningen
>
>Apparently there is a 'pocket' somewhere near Oldenburg where some kind of
>Frisian is still spoken, but I have never seen it in writing, or heard it.
>Frisian is also spoken on some of the German and Danish North sea islands
>(Wyk, Foehr), but to what extent this is still the case I don't know. I
>have seen written text, and it looks absolutely unintelligble to me, whereas
>I have no trouble with written Frisian as spoken in Friesland. Perhaps
>someone can enlighten us about the current remnants of Frisians in Germany
>and Denmark?
>
>Gustaaf 
>
>
Yes, there's a small region called "Saterland" with about 1,000 native
speakers of 'East Frisian' (another 1,000 still understand it but don't
speak it). A couple of years ago an American professor published an
English - (East) Frisian dictionary. If somebody's interested I can
check the reference when I next hit a library.
 
There are some more native speakers of North Frisian (roughly about
10,000) along the shores of the North Sea in Schleswig-Holstein.
North Frisian has been recognized as a language to be used and taught
at schools in this area since the 1920's.
 
Regards, 
Manfred Kiefer
