World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples -
Netherlands : Frisians |Publisher||Minority Rights Group
International| |Cite as||Minority Rights Group International,
World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples -
Netherlands : Frisians, 2008, available at:
http://www.refworld.org/docid/49749cd92d.html [accessed 23 May
2013]| |Disclaimer||This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is
not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its
content. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or
publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the
United Nations or its Member States.| Frisian is a West Germanic
language spoken in its Standard Frisian form by an estimated
400,000 people in the province of Friesland, where the total
population is around. 640,000, and by another 300,000 Frisians
who left Friesland to find work elsewhere in the Netherlands.
Frisians are bilingual in Frisian and Dutch. The capital of
Friesland is Liouwert (Leeuwarden). There are two regional
dialects in F