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... Frisian , and German , Netherlandic is a West Germanic language . It derives from Low Franconian , the speech of the Western Franks , which was restructured through contact with speakers of North Sea Germanic along the coast ( Flanders ...
... Frisian , and German , Netherlandic is a West Germanic language . It derives from Low Franconian , the speech of the Western Franks , which was restructured through contact with speakers of North Sea Germanic along the coast ( Flanders ...
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... Frisian island of Texel , off its northern tip . The island of Marken in the IJsselmeer has been con- nected by embankment with the mainland since 1957 ; the former island of Wieringen , now united after drainage with the main- land ...
... Frisian island of Texel , off its northern tip . The island of Marken in the IJsselmeer has been con- nected by embankment with the mainland since 1957 ; the former island of Wieringen , now united after drainage with the main- land ...
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... FRISIAN ISLANDS ( Europe ) : see Frisian Islands . Nordhausen , city , Thuringia Land ( state ) , central Germany , lying on the Zorge River , at the southern slopes of the Harz Mountains , in the fertile lowland known as the Goldene ...
... FRISIAN ISLANDS ( Europe ) : see Frisian Islands . Nordhausen , city , Thuringia Land ( state ) , central Germany , lying on the Zorge River , at the southern slopes of the Harz Mountains , in the fertile lowland known as the Goldene ...
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