Frisian is not one language but a small West Germanic group of three: West Frisian, North Frisian and Saterland Frisian. West Frisian is much the largest, spoken by several hundred thousand people in the Dutch province of Friesland, where it is co-official with Dutch and appears in schools, courts and broadcasting. North Frisian survives along the coast and islands of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany with a few thousand speakers, and Saterland Frisian, the last remnant of East Frisian, is down to a small community in Lower Saxony. The Frisian languages are often described as English's closest continental relatives, a kinship dating from before Anglo-Saxon speakers crossed the North Sea, though centuries of separate development mean they are not mutually intelligible with English today. All three are written in the Latin alphabet.
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