Talk:West Frisian language

message: According to Ethnologue (see the info behind the ISO-639-3, Westerlauwer Fries is a dialect.. GerardM 15:55, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Please read the article: Ethnologue. Westerlauwer Fries is a dialect of WESTERN FRISIAN. :) GerardM 13:48, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The map labels and legend are not in English. -- Beland (talk) 01:11, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map cleanup needed 

message: In all my years of speaking, reading and writing in Frisian, I have only ever encountered "ô" in French loan words; yet this article has it included in the alphabet.  "Ô" has long been replaced by "oo" in West Frisian.
Bôle dan?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.252.7.11 (talk) 10:43, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: The Letter Ô

message: I'll add a small bit of info regarding the legal status as there was some confusion over it on someones talk page. RonaldKunenborg (talk) 22:05, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  legal status 

message: "Current-day Frisian is moving towards standard Dutch rapidly in most aspects, and differs less from Dutch than most dialects spoken in the Netherlands."
I'm not sure what this means. It (West Frisian?) differs less from (Standard?) Dutch than most (Dutch?) dialects spoken in the Netherlands? And the footnote doesn't appear to have anything related to this claim. Rainfrog (talk) 16:37, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Middle Frisian and New Frisian 

message: In the fifth paragraph of the section West Frisian language#Dialects, the phrases "mainstream Frisian" and "mainland dialects" are used. However, it is not clear what is meant by these phrases. 
In the sixth paragraph of this section, the phrase "The fourth mainland dialect" is used. In my opinion, it is not clear what this means. It seems that some of the dialects mentioned in this section are island dialects and some are mainland dialects, but it is not entirely clear which is which. Perhaps the dialects could be organized into two groups. CorinneSD (talk) 22:34, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Terminology 

message: Lead sentence and infobox say Frisian, as if it was a synonym of West Frisian. The largest concentrations of Frisian speakers outside the Netherlands are located in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. is unsourced, it is furthermore unclear, whether it pertains to West Frisian or Frisian. Sarcelles (talk) 12:00, 6 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Term Frisian 

message: Can we get a citation on this?
"Despite the genetic relationship with English, Frisian is not intelligible to monolingual English-speakers, for whom it would be mistaken for or assumed to be Dutch."
The assumption that it would be assumed to be Dutch by English speakers when there are so many English speakers seems like a big statement to make without a citation of a pretty enormous piece of research. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.14.225.130 (talk • contribs) 
:I have removed that portion of text. Dutch itself is not recognized as such by every English speaker (it is often misidentified as German), so presenting the identification of Frisian as Dutch as a general phenomena, seems far-fetched. Richard 11:03, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Folklore about relation to English"...Mutual intelligibility with English 

message: There is a discussion about whether there is a linkage between Germanic, Frisian and English peoples and languages at Talk:English people#Germanic and Frisian links. It would be helpful if editors could hold fire on making edits related to this topic until a consensus has been reached. Thanks. Bermicourt (talk) 13:34, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  English, Frisian and Germanic links