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1998, Colin Baker, Sylvia Prys Jones, Encyclopedia of bilingualism and bilingual education, page 405:
In the province of Friesland, in the north of the Netherlands, a high percentage of the population, about 350000, speak Frisian as their first language.
2000, Jasone Cenoz, Ulrike Jessner, English in Europe: the acquisition of a third language, page 223:
This means that full competence in both Frisian and Dutch (ie understanding, speaking, reading and writing ability) is aimed at all pupils in the province, whether they speak Frisian or Dutch at home.
2005, Pat Seward, Sunandini Arora Lal, Netherlands, page 89:
Many Frisians speak Frisian at home and Dutch at work.
(specifically)Saterland Frisian, the last surviving dialect of the East Frisian lect, spoken in Northern Germany close to the Dutch border.
(specifically) The North Frisian lect, spoken in northwestern Schleswig-Holstein in Germany.
Usage notes
Some linguists consider West Frisian, Saterland Frisian, and North Frisian to be varieties of a single language called “Frisian”. As they are not mutually intelligible, other linguists and the speakers consider them to be separate languages in a language group called “Frisian”. Saterland Frisian is a variety of “East Frisian”, but this term more often refers to a Low German dialect, because the Low German dialect has a far greater number of speakers than the Frisian lect.
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