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Western frisian

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frisiannounA Germanic language group or language (see Usage notes), or a lect thereof, which descended from Old Frisian, with speakers in the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark.
westfalishnounSynonym of Westphalian (dialect group)
old frisiannouna West Germanic language spoken on parts of the North Sea coast of modern Netherlands and Germany until the 16th century
clay frisiannounA dialect of West Frisian spoken in the clay region.
old low franconiannoun(strict sense) The West Germanic language that is the ancestor of modern Dutch and its varieties.
low saxonnounA group of related dialects of Low German, spoken in northern Germany and parts of the Netherlands, formerly also in Denmark.
middle frisiannoun(linguistics) The language descended from Old Frisian spoken on the North Sea coast of modern Netherlands and Germany from the 16th century until c. 1820.
anglo-frisiannounA group of Germanic languages, including English, Scots and Frisian.
brabantishnounSynonym of Brabantian.
stellingwerfsnounA form of Dutch Low Saxon, spoken in the Dutch province of Friesland.
westrobothnianounSynonym of Västerbotten (latinized form of the Swedish term)
old east low franconiannoun(broad sense) Old Low Franconian (as distinguished from Old West Low Franconian or Westfränkisch)
westphaliannoun(politics) Of or pertaining to the Peace of Westphalia of 1648 which established a new system of political order in Central Europe, based on the concept of co-existing sovereign states.
west germanicnoun(linguistics) The branch of the Germanic language family consisting of English, Frisian languages, Dutch, Afrikaans, Low Saxon languages, German, and Yiddish, and their immediate predecessors.
nether-saxonnounSynonym of Low German.
old dutchnounA branch of Old Low Franconian, with a Frisian substrate, spoken and written during the Middle Ages (c. 9th to 12th century) in the Netherlands and the northern part of present-day Belgium, as well as in areas of northern France along the North Sea coast and adjoining Belgium. This language represents the first attested stage of the Dutch language and its dialects, being succeeded by Middle Dutch in the later Middle Ages.
westmünsterländischnounthe Low German dialect of the Westmünsterland
stellingwarfsnounAlternative form of Stellingwerfs. [A form of Dutch Low Saxon, spoken in the Dutch province of Friesland.]
west bothnianoun(uncommon) Synonym of Västerbotten.
hollandicnounThe Dutch dialect spoken in Holland (and adjacent areas).

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