Frisian

Frisian

Frisian is a Western Germanic language that was once spoken along the North Sea coast from present-day Holland to southern Denmark, but nowadays, apart from a few remnants of its eastern dialects in Northwest Germany, it is only spoken in the Dutch province of Frisia, where it is co-official with Dutch.

Frisian is closely related to Dutch and has been heavily influenced by it. Nevertheless, it is clearly a separate language that some consider to be the closest living relative of English. Whether this is true is debatable. Frisian is certainly much closer related to Dutch and German than it is to Modern English. Still, there are some Frisian words that are more similar to their English than to their Dutch or German cognates.

Here are a few examples of such words:

English	Frisian	Dutch	German
cheese	tsiis	kaas	Käse
day	dei	dag	Tag
goose	goes	gans	Gans
through	troch	door	durch
yesterday	juster	gisteren	gestern

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