Saxon, East Frisian Low

FRS

moribund

Alternate Names: Ostfriesisch

Dialects: None known. Not intelligible of Frisian , of the Netherlands or Northern Frisian , (1978 E. Matteson) or Saterfriesisch , (2001 W. Smidt). Lexical similarity: 77% with Standard German ,, 74% with Frisian ,.

Genealogy:

Indo-European
Germanic
West
Low Saxon-Low Franconian
Low Saxon

Demographics: 2,000 (2003). Population total all countries: 5,120.

Language Use: Language of the home for 1,500 to 2,000 (1977 SIL). Mainly older adults (2001). Used as L2 by Saterfriesisch [stq].

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Germany