North Frisian

English

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Proper noun

North Frisian

1. A Frisian language, or group of dialects, spoken by 5,000 to 10,000 people in northwestern Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Meronyms

• Föhr-Amrum Frisian (the largest dialect)
• Mooring Frisian (2nd-largest dialect, spoken around Niebüll)
• Sylt Frisian (3rd-largest dialect)
• Heligolandic, Hallig Frisian, Goesharde Frisian, Karrharde Frisian (smaller, mostly moribund dialects)

Translations

Frisian language

• Afrikaans: Noord-Fries (af)
• Danish: nordfrisisk (da) c
• Dutch: Noordfries n
• Esperanto: nordfrisa lingvo
• Estonian: põhjafriisi
• Faroese: norðurfrísiskt n
• Finnish: pohjoisfriisi (fi)
• French: frison septentrional m, frison du Nord m
• Frisian:

  North Frisian: Nordfriisk n, (Sylt) Noortfriisk n, (Heligoland) Nuurđfriisk, (Fering) Nuurdfriisk, (Öömrang) Nuurdfresk

  Saterland Frisian: Noudfräisk

  West Frisian: Noardfrysk (fy) n

• Georgian: ჩრდილოფრიზიული (črdilopriziuli), ჩრდილოფრიზიული ენა (črdilopriziuli ena)
• German: Nordfriesisch (de) n
• Icelandic: norðurfrísneska f
• Indonesian: Bahasa Frisia Utara
• Irish: Freaslainnis an Tuaiscirt f
• Italian: frisone settentrionale m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nordfrisisk (no) m

  Nynorsk: nordfrisisk m

• Polish: północnofryzyjski m
• Romanian: frizonă nordică f, friziană nordică f
• Russian: севернофри́зский (ru) m (severnofrízskij)
• Spanish: frisio norteño
• Swedish: nordfrisiska (sv) c
• Vietnamese: Tiếng Bắc Friesland

Noun

North Frisian (plural North Frisians)

1. A person belonging to or descended from the people.

Translations

person belonging to the North Frisian people

• Dutch: Noordfries m
• Faroese: norðurfrísi m
• Finnish: pohjoisfriisi (fi)
• Georgian: ჩრდილოფრიზიელი (črdiloprizieli)
• German: Nordfriese m, Nordfriesin f
• Romanian: frizon nordic m

Adjective

North Frisian

1. Pertaining to the North Frisians.

Translations

pertaining to the North Frisians

• Dutch: Noordfries
• Faroese: norðurfrísiskur
• Finnish: pohjoisfriisiläinen
• Georgian: ჩრდილოფრიზიული (črdilopriziuli), ჩრდილოფრიზიელების (črdiloprizielebis)
• German: nordfriesisch (de)

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of North Frisian terms
• North Frisian language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• North Frisian Wikipedia
• North Frisian Swadesh list
• ISO 639-3 code frr (SIL)