Language code: 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.

Code

fy

Name

Official

Western Frisian

Native

Frysk

Family
Germanic
Scripts
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

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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.

Language presence globally

Speakers

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Western Frisian speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

fy-NL Western Frisian (Netherlands)

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