Editing Frisian languages (section)

===Speakers===
Most Frisian speakers live in the [[Netherlands]], primarily in the province of [[Friesland]], which since 1997 officially uses its West Frisian name of Fryslân, where the number of native speakers is about 400,000,<ref name="Extra">{{Cite book|title = The Other Languages of Europe: Demographic, Sociolinguistic, and Educational Perspectives|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=hvmy_skUPNYC|publisher = Multilingual Matters|date = 2001-01-01|isbn = 9781853595097|first1 = Guus|last1 = Extra|first2 = Durk|last2 = Gorter}}</ref>{{Page needed|date=October 2021}} which is about 75% of the inhabitants of Friesland.<ref name=Bremmer>{{Cite book|title = An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=uWYsSOp6g58C|publisher = John Benjamins Publishing|date = 2009-01-01|isbn = 978-9027232557|language = en|first = Rolf Hendrik|last = Bremmer}}</ref>{{Page needed|date=October 2021}} An increasing number of native Dutch speakers in the province are learning Frisian as a second language.

In [[Germany]], there are about 2,000<ref>"Gegenwärtige Schätzungen schwanken zwischen 1.500 und 2.500." Marron C. Fort: Das Saterfriesische. In: Horst Haider Munske, Nils Århammar: Handbuch des Friesischen – Handbook of Frisian Studies. Niemayer (Tübingen 2001).</ref> speakers of Saterland Frisian in the marshy [[Saterland]] region of [[Lower Saxony]]. Saterland Frisian has resisted encroachment from [[Low German]] and [[Standard German]], but Saterland Frisian 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.<ref name=Bremmer />{{rp|1}}

In the [[North Frisia]] (''Nordfriesland'') region of the German state of [[Schleswig-Holstein]], there were 10,000 North Frisian speakers.<ref>{{cite book | last1=Konig | first1=E. | last2=van der Auwera | first2=J. | title=The Germanic Languages | publisher=Taylor & Francis | series=Routledge Language Family Series | year=2013 | isbn=978-1-317-79958-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DVBdAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA505 | access-date=2020-02-01 | page=505}}</ref> Although many of these live on the mainland, most are found on the islands, notably [[Sylt]], [[Föhr]], [[Amrum]], and [[Heligoland]]. The local corresponding North Frisian dialects are still in use.

West Frisian–Dutch bilinguals are split into two categories: Speakers who had Dutch as their first language tended to maintain the Dutch system of homophony between plural and linking suffixes when speaking West Frisian, by using the West Frisian plural as a linking morpheme. Speakers who had West Frisian as their first language often maintained the West Frisian system of no homophony when speaking West Frisian.