With a vague sense of ethnic pride, a vaguer sense that I owed it to my great-grandfather and a complete ignorance of the Frisian language, I attended the 50th and final Frisian worship service in ...
A member of the Frisian national party – Fryske Nasjonale Partij – has caused shockwaves by suggesting the party drop its Frisian-only language rule, the Leeuwarder Courant says on Thursday. The FNP ...
The Frisian language will be spoken in the European Parliament for the first time on Monday as part of a session dedicated to Europe’s minority languages. Jan Huitema, an MEP from Makkinga for the VVD ...
Editor's note: From April 20-26, 2022, Mirjam Vellinga will be hosting the @EuroDigitalLang rotating Twitter account, which explores how technology can be used to revitalize European minority or ...
Ministerie van binnenlandse zaken en koninkrijksrelaties (ministry of the interior and kingdom relations) , province of fryslân ...
American Alison Hendricks is conducting research into the Frisian language on the North Sea island of Föhr. In all of the local schools, Frisian is taught along with German. Today only around ...
I recently went to the last town in the world that still speaks Old English and I was shocked by how much I could speak and understand. Well okay, it’s not exactly Old English, it’s a rare language ...
When this discussion focuses on the Netherlands and Belgium we easily tend to forget the other official language spoken in the Northern section of The Netherlands: Frysk (or 'Frisian' in English), ...