I love how the frisian languages recreate the division of the germanic branch, having a east, west and north version

Name a more iconic trio.

It's interesting that the Frisian dialects differentiated in part by contact with more culturally dominant languages, because the most important event in the development of English was the influence of the culturally dominant language of the Normans.

As a Dutch person: North Frisian sounds closer to a Scandinavian language. West Frisian: extremely familiar, but still very foreign (as someone from the West/Randstad) East Frisian: sounds like someone from Eastern Europe trying to speak German, but failing at it.

Great pronunciation Andy! I'm impressed!

as a young person who speaks west frisian as a native language with my family and grew up speaking the language even here in Friesland(west-frisian province) we have a lot of different dialects almost every town has a name for its accent and even here i notice the differences. Nothing west-frisian is incorrect but i guess we modernise it with lots of words. For the word where did he 'go' it said in west frisian as 'gien' but we pronounce it as 'gong' and sometimes the eastern-frisian language sounds even more close not necessarily accent wise but just the words and how they are written

Great video! 1:04 The yellow markings are a bit odd. There are some Islands marked, that aren't even inhabited. :D Like Süderoog-Sand (most bottom yellow island)

West Frisian is phonemically most similar to modern Dutch to my ears

Nice list.

Hey, Andy! Are you native to one of those Germanic-speaking countries? Your pronunciation sounds like you are. I always assumed you were Southeast Asian from your slight accent in English. ❤ your videos. And sorry if it sounds nosy, I’m just curious

Yes

I’m thrilled that you can pronounce Dutch place names like a Dutch!

Contrary to your image of us west-Frisians, we do not have red eyes. I do have grey hair though.

Wonderful languages.

I’ve read some comments that claim that some accents and dialects in the UK resemble West Frisian and Old English

I like Frisian but I do not speak it I have a soft spot for it I don't know why

I thought (may be erroneous) that West Fries also used to implicate northern parts of North Holland and the old islands in the Zuider Zee (Marke/Monickedam) but I would go wrong here if you put the emesis on the language spoken now. I remember in the eighties waking up in Marke at a girlfriend's place by her mother not understanding half what she said only the word coffee.

I am a bit puzzled. As West Frisian is a dialect, spoken in a region in Noord Holland. Where I live. It is supposed to be related to Frisian.

As an Englishman I find it interesting that I can vocalize Frisian noticeably easier than German or any Scandinavian languages. There are some sounds in Frisian that I don't recognize, but seemingly find simple enough to pronounce if I give it a go. I'm sure it's not perfect, but trying to do the same in any other language seems to have dramatically worse results

North Frisian feels more like English

Andy, will you ever put your Gallo and Champenois videos on KZfaq?

As a westlauwers frisian, I understand the northern dialect better. The eastern dialect already has quite a bit german sakson in it.

I'm surprised how close North Frisan sounds like Afrikaans. Lots of works I can make out like "apskalig" which I've heard some of the older people using this word as a kid. Meaning something pretty bad. Edit: After listening more for a while. I feel like if you combine North Frisan with West Frisan, you get something close to Afrikaans. Grammer wise North is the closest to Afrikaans grammer, even the emphasis on some words sound similar. Word wise West Frisan is closer, but I believe it's because it's very close to Dutch.

Interesting, they are similar to Dutch. And the male Figures are very cute.

Andy in this are missing the anglo frisians idioms taht i talked to you today and yesterday put them on this video too 💙💙🫂🫂💙

That's a pretty loose translation, one can't really compare the different kind of Frisians. I can understand the north and east Frisian because they look a bit like Dutch (east Frisian/saterfrisian?) (my daily language) and German (north Frisian)

El patrón es el mismo que el de frisia del norte

Goed!🤣🤣🤣

Damn even frisian is split up?

I grew up speaking the Dutch of the Netherlands and Belgium The West Frisian is also called Fris in NL I understood almost all of it. It is closer to Dutch then German

Andy, what’s your mother tongue?

Slava Frisland!

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frisian is not even related to english 😮😮😮