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 ...

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 ...

04:00, Tue, Apr 1, 2025 Updated: 13:50, Wed, Apr 2, 2025 Europe is an amalgamation of many different cultures and dialects, and so is the English language. The Germanic tongue has been influenced by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A member of the Frisian national party – Fryske Nasjonale Partij – has caused shockwaves by suggesting the party drop its Frisian-only language rule, the Leeuwarder Courant says on Thursday. The FNP ...