Wangerooge Frisian | |
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Native to | Lower Saxony, Germany |
Region | Wangerooge |
Ethnicity | East Frisians |
Extinct | 1953[ citation needed] |
Indo-European
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | (a proposal to use wgf was rejected in 2022 [1]) |
Glottolog | None |
Wangerooge Frisian is an extinct dialect of the East Frisian language, formerly spoken on the East Frisian island of Wangerooge. [2] Wangerooge Frisian was a part of the Weser group of dialects which included the Wangerooge and the equally extinct Wursten dialect. [3] The last speaker died in 1953.