East Frisian
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East Frisian is an adjective
referring to East Frisia
, a region in Germany. It can refer specifically to:
Adjective
In grammar, an adjective is a 'describing' word; the main syntactic role of which is to qualify a noun or noun phrase, giving more information about the object signified....
referring to East Frisia
East Frisia
East Frisia or Eastern Friesland is a coastal region in the northwest of the German federal state of Lower Saxony....
, a region in Germany. It can refer specifically to:
- East FrisiansEast FrisiansEast Frisians are, in the wider sense, the inhabitants of East Frisia in the northwest of the German state of Lower Saxony. In the narrower sense the East Frisians are the eastern branch of the Frisians, a Germanic people and belong, together with the Danes, Sorbs, Sinti and Romanies to the...
, the people from the region - East Friesian (sheep), a breed of sheep originating there
- East Frisian IslandsEast Frisian IslandsThe East Frisian Islands are a chain of islands in the North Sea, off the coast of East Frisia in Lower Saxony, Germany. The islands extend for some from west to east between the mouths of the Ems and Jade / Weser rivers and lie about 3.5 to 10 km offshore...
, off the coast of East Frisia - East Frisian Low SaxonEast Frisian Low SaxonEast Frisian Low Saxon is a West Low German dialect spoken in the East Frisian peninsula of northwestern Lower Saxony. It is used quite frequently in everyday speech there. About half of the East Frisian population in the coastal region uses Platdüütsk. A number of individuals, despite not being...
, the Low German dialect spoken there - Ostfriesen and Alt-Oldenburger, a breed of horse originating there
- Saterland Frisian languageSaterland Frisian languageSaterland Frisian, also known as Sater Frisian or Saterlandic , is the last living dialect of the East Frisian language. It is closely related to the other Frisian languages—North Frisian, which, like Saterland Frisian, is spoken in Germany and West Frisian, which is spoken in the Netherlands.- Old...
, a language historically spoken there and in Saterland - Wangerooge Frisian language, an extinct language spoken on the Wangerooge island