29953 West Frisian 100000 ~264,000 600,000 "The province of Friesland has about 600,000 inhabitants and about half of these can be considered first-language speakers of Frisian. A sociolinguistic study in 1994 revealed that 94% of the population of Friesland can understand the language, 74% can speak it, 65% are able to read Frisian (however, most of them read Dutch more easily) and 17% write Frisian. Frisian is spoken in 55% of the homes. Speakers of Frisian form a (great) majority in most rural areas, and a (small) minority in the towns and citites, on the Frisian Isles and in the Stellingwerven (two Low-Saxon municipalities in the southeastern part of the province). Practically all Frisian speakers are bilingual in Dutch." Dutch, Frisian, and Low German: The State Language of the Netherlands and its Relationship with two Germanic Minority Languages On ~300,000 100000