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ISO 639-3 · frrfrr
Indo-European family
North Frisian
Nuurdfresk
North Frisian is a language of the Frisian branch (Indo-European), spoken in Germany. Wikidata counts about 10,000 speakers (1976). Wikidata describes it as “minority languages of Germany, spoken mostly by people in North Frisia”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
frr- Glottocode
nort2626- Family
- Indo-European
- EGIDS
- 7 Shifting
- UNESCO
- Severely endangered
- Centre point
- 54.63, 8.58
- Wikipedia
- 65 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
1countries
1scripts
5levels in the tree
7EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | North Frisian · Nuurdfresk |
|---|---|
| Also called | Northern Frisian, Nordfriisk, Friisk, North Frisian language |
| All speakers | 10,000 (1976) |
| Written in | Latin script |
| Grammatical genders | 3 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 7 Shifting7
Endangered. Children are no longer learning it everywhere, or only grandparents speak it — EGIDS 6b to 8b.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Severely endangered
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Indo-European to North Frisian
The branches above North Frisian, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
414Indo-Europeanfamily60Germanicbranch54West Germanicbranch12Anglo-Frisianbranch4FrisianbranchfrrNorth Frisianlanguage
where it is spoken
Countries
Also spoken in Germany
deuGermanIndo-European · 135 m1 · NationalromRomaniIndo-European · 46 mDefinitely endangeredazeAzerbaijaniTurkic · 35 mSafenldDutchIndo-European · 23.1 m1 · NationalbarBavarianIndo-European · 14.1 m5 · DevelopingkazKazakhTurkic · 13.2 m1 · NationalgswAlemannicIndo-European · 10 m5 · DevelopinghyeArmenianIndo-European · 6.7 m1 · NationaldanDanishEast Scandinavian · 5.5 m1 · NationalndsLow GermanIndo-European · 5 m7 · Shifting