Westereendersk is a local variety of
Wood Frisian
West Frisian (; ), or simply Frisian ( ; ), is a West Germanic language spoken mostly in the province of Friesland () in the north of the Netherlands, mostly by those of Frisian ancestry. It is the most widely spoken of the Frisian languages ...
and is spoken in
De Westereen
De Westereen (sometimes referred to as ''De Westerein'' in West Frisian and as ''Zwaagwesteinde'' in Dutch) is a village in the Dantumadiel municipality of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 5,000 in 2017.
History
De Weste ...
,
Zwagerbosch and
Twijzelerheide
Twijzelerheide () is a village in Achtkarspelen in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands
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. The most remarkable feature is the use of ''ee'' where Wood Frisian and most other
West Frisian dialects use ''ei'' or ''ij'' .
This sound change from and sometimes to brings us some striking similarities with
English
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* English language
* English people
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in spoken or written texts as most differences to standard West Frisian also concern differences to English.
Examples
In the verbs ''lizze'' (to lie, to lay) and ''sizze'' (to say) and in the first person singular of these verbs the is replaced by an . This phenomenon can also be found back in other parts of the Frisian Woods.
De Westereen
When the
municipality
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of
Dantumadiel
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H ...
chose for West Frisian names as official topographical names it was decided to replace the Dutch name ''Zwaagwesteinde'' by ''De Westereen'' instead of ''De Westerein''. Towns like
Zwagerbosch and
Twijzelerheide
Twijzelerheide () is a village in Achtkarspelen in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands
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also speak "Westereender Frisian".
However the village is called ''De Westerein'' by most other Frisians, its inhabitants are often called ''Westereenders''.
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West Frisian languages
Achtkarspelen
Noardeast-Fryslân
Dantumadiel