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September 27, 2007 | permalink |


Guya! is your first clue for today's Geo Quiz. About half a million people living near the North Sea speak Frisian.

Here's one of them:

"Guya! Hello I'm speaking Frisian now and I live in Frisia and as far as I know my language is the little sister of English."

The question is, where would you find Friesland? And its community of Frisian speakers?

Sign in FrisianSign in Frisian

We can tell you that the language goes back to pre-Roman days -- and that many Frisians also speak Dutch or German. Also, the capital of Friesland is Leeuwarden.

We'll tell you where in Northern Europe you can hear Frisian spoken...





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