The Frisian languages are the closest living language group to the Anglic languages; the two groups make up the Anglo-Frisian languages group and together with the Low German dialects these form the North Sea Germanic languages.
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Indeed, the insular varieties of West Frisian are not intelligible to the mainland, and by that standard are additional languages, and North Frisian is divided into several strongly diverse dialects, which are not all mutually intelligible among themselves.
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The other Frisian languages, meanwhile, have been influenced by Low German and German.
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Frisian languages was spoken there at one time, only to have been gradually replaced by Low Saxon since the Middle Ages.
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Saterland Frisian languages has resisted encroachment from Low German and Standard German, but Saterland Frisian languages still remains seriously endangered because of the small size of the speech community and of the lack of institutional support to help preserve and spread the language.
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Saterland and North Frisian are officially recognised and protected as minority languages in Germany, and West Frisian is one of the two official languages in the Netherlands, the other being Dutch.
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Recent attempts have allowed Frisian languages be used somewhat more in some of the domains of education, media and public administration.
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L2 speakers, both the quality and amount of time Frisian languages is taught in the classroom is low, concluding that Frisian languages lessons do not contribute meaningfully to the linguistic and cultural development of the students.
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At that time, the Frisian languages language was spoken along the entire southern North Sea coast.
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Up until the 15th century, Frisian languages was a language widely spoken and written, but from 1500 onwards it became an almost exclusively oral language, mainly used in rural areas.
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Frisian languages's example was not followed until the 19th century, when entire generations of West Frisian authors and poets appeared.
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Therefore, the Modern West Frisian languages period is considered to have begun at this point in time, around 1820.
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Frisian languages belong to the West Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages, the most widespread language family in Europe and the world.
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