  WesternFrisianLanguage
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Sigma KEE - WesternFrisianLanguage
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西弗里西亞語
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The WesternFrisianLanguage is a FrisianLanguage of the Netherlands. SIL code: FRI. ISO 639-1: fy. ISO 639-2: fry. Population: 700,000 in the Netherlands, including 400,000 in Friesland, 300,000 elsewhere (1976 Stephens). Population total all countries 730,000 or more. Region: Friesland, northern Netherlands. Also spoken in Canada, Denmark, Germany, USA. Alternate names: FRYSK, FRIES. Dialects: TOWN FRISIAN. Comments: Linguistically between Dutch and English. Not intelligible with Eastern and Northern Frisian of Germany (E. Matteson SIL 1978). 71% lexical similarity with Standard German, 61% with English, 74% with Eastern Frisian. Most speakers are bilingual in Dutch. Over 70% of those in Friesland still speak Western Frisian. Town Frisian is a mixed language. National language. Literacy rate in first language: Speakers not generally literate in Frisian. Bilingual education is compulsory in Friesland but speakers are not generally literate in Frisian. Has an official orthography in the Netherlands. Bible 1943-1978.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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| Instances | 內容承載物理 | Any Object or Process that expresses content. This covers Objects that contain a Proposition, such as a book, as well as ManualSignLanguage, which may similarly contain a Proposition. |
| | Entity | The universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology. |
| | 弗里斯蘭語 | Of the 43 WestGermanicLanguages, three are classified as a FrisianLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | 德系語 | A GermanicLanguage is any of 58 closely related IndoEuropeanLanguages spoken in the UnitedKingdom and northern and central Europe.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | HumanLanguage | The subclass of Languages used by Humans. |
| | 印度歐洲語言 | There are 433 languages categorized as an IndoEuropeanLanguage, forming a major family of the world's languages and including many of the most familiar languages of Europe and South Asia.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | Language | A system of signs for expressing thought. The system can be either natural or artificial, i.e. something that emerges gradually as a cultural artifact or something that is intentionally created by a person or group of people. |
| | LanguageFamily | A LanguageFamily is group of SpokenHumanLanguages related through descent from a common ancestral language. (reference from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_family) |
| | LinguisticExpression | This is the subclass of ContentBearingPhysical which are language-related. Note that this Class encompasses both Language and the the elements of Languages, e.g. Words. |
| | NaturalLanguage | The subclass of HumanLanguages which are not designed and which evolve from generation to generation. This Class includes all of the national languages, e.g. English, Spanish, Japanese, etc. Note that this class includes dialects of natural languages. |
| | Physical | An entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time. |
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印度歐洲語言 |
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