Frisian

Frysk, Fryske talen

Main information

Family

Indo-European

Branch

European

Group

Germanic

Western Germanic

Anglo-frisian

Native speakers

720 100 (2023)

Status

Provincial

Region

Netherlands, Germany, Canada

Characteristic

SVO; prepositions; noun head final for common adjectives, numbers, possessives, but most attributive adjectives come after the noun; gender (masculine/feminine); definite and indefinite articles; verb affixes mark person, number; passives; tense; comparatives; 20 consonant and 14 vowel phonemes; non-tonal; syllable-timed stress.

Audio

Text

Sneontemoarn om tsien oere giene de doarren fan syn tydlike winkel iepen.

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