fy
Technical information about ISO 639 language code fy
The table below provides technical details for the Western Frisian language, designated by the fy
code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
West Frisian belongs to the Indo-European language family, specifically to the Germanic subgroup. It is officially used in Friesland, the Netherlands, and is written using the Latin script. It is estimated that there are more than 470,000 speakers worldwide.
Speakers
470K
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Western Frisian speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
fy-NL
– Western Frisian (Netherlands)
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