The Frisian (/ ˈ f r iː ʒ ə n /, / ˈ f r ɪ z i ə n /) languages are a closely related group of West Germanic languages, spoken by about 500,000 Frisian people, who live on the southern fringes of the North Sea in the Netherlands and Germany.The Frisian languages are the closest living language group to the Anglic languages; the two groups make up the Anglo-Frisian languages group and ...

West Frisian, or simply Frisian (West Frisian: Frysk or Westerlauwersk Frysk; Dutch: Fries, also Westerlauwers Fries), is a West Germanic language spoken mostly in the province of Friesland (Fryslân) in the north of the Netherlands, mostly by those of Frisian ancestry.It is the most widely spoken of the Frisian languages.. In the study of the evolution of English, West Frisian is …

Wikipedia is a free multilingual open-source wiki-based online encyclopedia edited and maintained by a community of volunteer editors, started on 15 January 2001 (21 years ago) () as an English-language encyclopedia.Other editions were soon created: the German and Catalan editions were created around 16 March, the French edition was created on 23 March, and the …

Catalan nationalism is the ideology asserting that the Catalans are a distinct nation.. Intellectually, modern Catalan nationalism can be said to have commenced as a political philosophy in the unsuccessful attempts to establish a federal state in Spain in the context of the First Republic (1873-1874). Valentí Almirall i Llozer and other intellectuals that participated in this process set …

Swedish (svenska [ˈsvɛ̂nːska] ()) is a North Germanic language spoken natively by at least 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and in parts of Finland, where it has equal legal standing with Finnish with the exception of Åland which is unilingually Swedish. It has more speakers than any other North Germanic language and is the fourth-most spoken Germanic language overall.

Cattle (Bos taurus) are large domesticated bovines.They are most widespread species of the genus Bos.Adult females are referred to as cows and adult males are referred to as bulls.. Cattle are commonly raised as livestock for meat (beef or veal, see beef cattle), for milk (see dairy cattle), and for hides, which are used to make leather.They are used as riding animals and draft …

Etymology. The word north is related to the Old High German nord, both descending from the Proto-Indo-European unit *ner-, meaning "left; below" as north is to left when facing the rising sun. Similarly, the other cardinal directions are also related to the sun's position. The Latin word borealis comes from the Greek boreas "north wind, north", which, according to Ovid, was …