Goeie dei!
say it: “GOO-yeh day”
West Frisian
in its own words: Frysk
- Speakers
- 500 thousand (estimate)
- Family
- Indo-European – Germanic
- Vitality
- Safe
- Where it is spoken
- Netherlands
- Script
- Latin
- Official language
- Netherlands (regional)
Fun fact
Frisian and English form the Anglo-Frisian branch of West Germanic, so Frisian is often called English's closest relative on the European mainland.