Hoi Till,
Fries, is a hot topic on the nl:wikipedia. We have had our fair share of skirmishes there. I have complained that what some call West Frisian is not West Frisian at all. It is Frisian. The history of the Frisians is a bit more complicated than most people know and many have decided to call Frisian proper all kind of names, including Westerlauwers Fries and West Frisian.
Westfries is something seperate. It was spoken in what is now Noord Holland and practically nobody speaks it anymore. Node is basically repeating what he reads in books. I live in this area called Westfriesland, I even have family coming from Friesland proper. Node decides that I do not know what I am talking about which is fine. Frisian is not three varieties like Node says. In http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fries_%28taal%29 you may find that it can be split up even further not even considering Westfries as part of this all. This Westerlauwers Fries is a concept dreamed up to put many varieties of Frisian together. You will not have anyone in the Netherlands call Frisian West Frisian. To me it is stupid, never mind what fancy book it is in.
Thanks, :) GerardM
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Hi Mark, hi Gerard,
Apparently, you don't realise that there are basically 3 separate Frisian languages.
am I the only one how isn't able to realize what the hot fought discussion is about? As far as I understood the mails, Mark and Gerard were saying more or less the same. What is the difference? __ . / / / / ... Till Westermayer - till we *) . . . mailto:till@tillwe.de . www.westermayer.de/till/ . icq 320393072 . Hirschstraße 5. 79100 Freiburg . 0761 55697152 . 0160 96619179 . . . . .