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Disappearing language

April 23, 2013

American Alison Hendricks is conducting research into the Frisian language on the North Sea island of Föhr. In all of the local schools, Frisian is taught along with German. Today only around 10-thousand Germans still speak Frisian and a quarter of them live on Föhr.

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