West Frisian languages

West Frisian
EthnicityWest Frisians
Geographic
distribution
Friesland and Groningen, Netherlands
Linguistic classificationIndo-European
Subdivisions
ISO 639-1fy
ISO 639-2 / 5fry
ISO 639-3fry
Glottologmode1264
Present-day distribution West Frisian languages (blue), in the Netherlands
Notesfry is ISO 639-2 and not ISO 639-5

The West Frisian languages are a group of closely related, though not mutually intelligible, Frisian languages of the Netherlands. Due to the marginalization of all but mainland West Frisian, they are often portrayed as dialects of a single language. (See that article for the history of the languages.)


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