Fering

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Fering is a North Frisian dialect spoken primarily on the island of Föhr in Germany.

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Fering canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf North Frisian dialect
language variety
classifiedBy UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Söl'ring NERFINISHED
Öömrang
country Germany NERFINISHED
dialectOf North Frisian NERFINISHED
endangeredStatus definitely endangered
glottocode nort2626
hasAlternativeName Fering North Frisian NERFINISHED
hasAutonym Fering NERFINISHED
hasCulturalRole marker of Föhr island identity
hasLinguisticResearch documented in grammars and dictionaries of North Frisian
hasMorphologicalFeature case inflection
grammatical gender
hasNumberCategory plural
singular
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
palatalized consonants
hasStandardizationEffort orthography proposals by North Frisian language organizations
hasSyntacticFeature verb-second word order
hasTenseCategory non-past
past
hasWordOrderType SVO (surface, verb-second)
influencedBy Danish
Low German NERFINISHED
Standard German NERFINISHED
ISO639-3 frr
languageBranch North Frisian NERFINISHED
languageFamily Germanic languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

West Germanic languages NERFINISHED
partOf North Frisian dialect continuum NERFINISHED
primaryRegion Island of Föhr NERFINISHED
North Frisia NERFINISHED
regionType insular North Frisian
spokenIn Amrum (to a lesser extent)
Föhr NERFINISHED
state Schleswig-Holstein NERFINISHED
subdivisionOf North Frisian language NERFINISHED
usedBy North Frisian ethnic group NERFINISHED
inhabitants of Föhr
usedIn local education projects
local media on Föhr
traditional songs and stories
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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North Frisian hasDialect Fering