The Frisian language will be spoken in the European Parliament for the first time on Monday as part of a session dedicated to Europe’s minority languages. Jan Huitema, an MEP from Makkinga for the VVD ...

Editor's note: From April 20-26, 2022, Mirjam Vellinga will be hosting the @EuroDigitalLang rotating Twitter account, which explores how technology can be used to revitalize European minority or ...

With a vague sense of ethnic pride, a vaguer sense that I owed it to my great-grandfather and a complete ignorance of the Frisian language, I attended the 50th and final Frisian worship service in ...

Two villages in Frisland have become the first in the province with where Frisian is the dominant language at the local shop. The shops are making the switch following an appeal by Afuk, an ...

People love to flock to the North Sea coast and North Frisian islands each summer, but few people know a lot about the fascinating history of the people who live there. Here's what you need to know ...

When this discussion focuses on the Netherlands and Belgium we easily tend to forget the other official language spoken in the Northern section of The Netherlands: Frysk (or 'Frisian' in English), ...

American Alison Hendricks is conducting research into the Frisian language on the North Sea island of Föhr. In all of the local schools, Frisian is taught along with German. Today only around ...

I recently went to the last town in the world that still speaks Old English and I was shocked by how much I could speak and ...

Multilingualism is a central topic in the world of language policy. Robert Heaney (BA French and Dutch) picked Dr Kristine Horner's module on this topic and discovered Frysk, one of the official ...

To English speakers, Dutch will sound strangely familiar. "Mijn naam is George" won't trip up many English speakers, but more complex sentences like "Uw belastingaangifte moet volgende week worden ...