人权宣言 - Frisian

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按國家使用（官方語言）

背景

Frisian (Western) is spoken in northern Holland, mainly in the Netherlands, in the northermost province of Friesland (capital: Leeuwarden), which includes the outlying West Frisian Islands. There are about 300,000 speakers here, who are generally referred to as West Frisians, and over 700,000 in the Netherlands. There are also about 10,000 speakers, known as North Frisians, in Germany, in the northermost province of Schleswig-Holstein, which borders Denmark, and on the adjacent North Frisian Islands to the west. Western Frisian is not intelligible with Eastern and Northern Frisian of Germany. Frisian is a Germanic language, closer to English than Dutch in some respects. Most speakers are bilingual in Dutch. Friesian has an official orthography in the Netherlands. Bilingual education is compulsory in Friesland but speakers are not generally literate in Frisian.