West Frisian

English

Adjective

West Frisian (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to Friesland.
2. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (Netherlands) Of or pertaining to West Friesland.

Proper noun

West Frisian

1. A language spoken mostly in the province of Friesland, in the north of the Netherlands; West Lauwers Frisian, one of the three West Frisian languages (or language varieties).
2. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (Netherlands) A dialect spoken in West Friesland in the province of North Holland, historically related to the language spoken in Friesland.

Usage notes

• The lects West Frisian, Saterland Frisian, and North Frisian are sometimes considered dialects of a single Frisian language, but more often they are considered a group of three independent languages.

Translations

language spoken in Friesland

• Catalan: frisó occidental (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 弗里西亞語 (cmn), 弗里西亚语 (cmn) (Fúlǐxīyà yǔ)

• Dutch: Fries (nl) n, Westerlauwers Fries (nl) n
• Esperanto: okcidentfrisa lingvo (eo)
• Faroese: vesturfrísiskt (fo) n
• Finnish: länsifriisi (fi)
• French: frison occidental (fr) m
• German: Westfriesisch (de) n

• Italian: lingua frisone occidentale, lingua frisona occidentale (ad hoc)
• Japanese: フリジア語 (ja) (Furijia-go), フリース語 (ja) (Furīsu-go)
• Limburgish: Wèsfriesj (li) n
• Polish: (język) zachodniofryzyjski (pl) m
• Portuguese: frísio (pt) m, frisão (pt) m
• Russian: западнофризский (ru) (zapadnofrízskij) m (язы́к), фризский (ru) (frízskij) m (язы́к)
• Spanish: frisio occidental (es) m
• West Frisian: Frysk (fy)

the Western Frisian dialect of Dutch

• Dutch: West-Fries (nl)
• Finnish: länsifriisiläinen murre
• Italian: dialetto frisone occidentale (ad hoc)

• Polish: zachodniofryzyjski (pl) m
• Russian: западнофризский (ru) (zapadnofrízskij) m (язы́к)
• West Frisian: West-Frysk (fy)

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Please distinguish between the Frisian language group, the West Frisian language (sometimes known as "Frisian"), and the West Frisian dialect.

• French: frison m
• Icelandic: frísneska f
• Spanish: frisón m
• Swedish: frisiska c

See also

• West Frisian language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:West Frisian language
• ISO 639-1 code fy, ISO 639-3 code fry
• Wiktionary's coverage of West Frisian terms
• Appendix:West Frisian Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in West Frisian