Wangerooge Frisian

Extinct East Frisian dialect of Germany
Wangerooge Frisian
Native toLower Saxony, Germany
RegionWangerooge
EthnicityEast Frisians
Extinct1953[citation needed]
Language family
Indo-European
  • Germanic
    • West Germanic
      • North Sea Germanic
        • Anglo-Frisian
          • Frisian
            • East Frisian
              • Weser
                • Wangerooge Frisian
Language codes
ISO 639-3(a proposal to use wgf was rejected in 2022[1])
GlottologNone

Wangerooge Frisian is an extinct dialect of the East Frisian language, formerly spoken on the East Frisian island of Wangerooge.[2] Wangerooge Frisian was a part of the Weser group of dialects which included the Wangerooge and the equally extinct Wursten dialect.[3] The last speaker died in 1953.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Change Request Documentation: 2021-007". SIL International.
  2. ^ Dammel, Antje; Eitelmann, Matthias; Schmuck, Mirjam (2018-10-15). Reorganising Grammatical Variation: Diachronic studies in the retention, redistribution and refunctionalisation of linguistic variants. John Benjamins Publishing Company. pp. 27–50. ISBN 978-90-272-6342-1.
  3. ^ "Saterlandic, Part 2: Is Saterfrisian Endangered?". Foundation Operation X for languages, cultures and perspectives. 2019-02-07. Retrieved 2022-12-27.
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Anglo-Frisian
Anglic
Frisian
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East Frisian
North Frisian
West Frisian
Low German
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West Low German
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Low Franconian
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Standard variants
West Low Franconian
East Low Franconian
Cover groups
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Standard German
Non-standard variants
and creoles
Central German
West Central German
East Central German
Upper German
North
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West
East
East
Language subgroups
Reconstructed
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  • Languages between parentheses are varieties of the language on their left.


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