Wood Frisian
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Wood Frisian is a dialect
Dialect
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 of the West Frisian language
West Frisian language
West Frisian is a language spoken mostly in the province of Friesland in the north of the Netherlands. West Frisian is the name by which this language is usually known outside the Netherlands, to distinguish it from the closely related Frisian languages of Saterland Frisian and North Frisian,...

 spoken in the eastern part of the Dutch
Netherlands
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 province of Friesland
Friesland
Friesland is a province in the north of the Netherlands and part of the ancient region of Frisia.Until the end of 1996, the province bore Friesland as its official name. In 1997 this Dutch name lost its official status to the Frisian Fryslân...

, which is called Wâlden (English: "woods"). The dialect is also spoken in parts of Groningen
Groningen (province)
Groningen [] is the northeasternmost province of the Netherlands. In the east it borders the German state of Niedersachsen , in the south Drenthe, in the west Friesland and in the north the Wadden Sea...

, the province to the east of Friesland.

Phonological differences

The largest difference between Wood Frisian and the northwestern Clay Frisian
Clay Frisian
Clay Frisian is a dialect of the West Frisian language spoken in the northwestern part of the Dutch province of Friesland. It has been the primary dialect of written West Frisian since the nineteenth century as a result of its high status. Historically, this region has been the centre of commerce...

 dialect are the words my ("me"), dy ("you"), hy ("he"), sy ("she" or "they"), wy ("we"), and by ("by"), which are pronounced in the Wood Frisian as a mi, di, hi, si, wi, and bi and in Clay Frisian as mij, dij, hij, sij, wij, and bij. Other differences are in the pronouncement of the diphthongs ei, ai, and aai which are pronounced ij, ai, and aai in Wood Frisian, but ôi, òi, and ôi in Clay Frisian. Thus, in Wood Frisian, there is no difference between ei and ij, whereas in Clay Frisian, there is no difference between ei and aai.

Westereendersk dialect

In the town of the de Westereen, Zwagerbosch
Zwagerbosch
Zwagerbosch is a small village in Kollumerland c.a. in the province Friesland of the Netherlands and has around the 640 citizens. People speak a dialect of the standard Wood Frisian: Westereendersk dialect.-References:...

 and Twijzelerheide
Twijzelerheide
Twijzelerheide is a small village in Achtkarspelen in the province Friesland of the Netherlands and has around the 1960 citizens . In this village they speak a dialect of Wood Frisian: Westereendersk dialect.-External links:...

 people speak a different kind of Wood Frisian: Westereendersk dialect.
Other phonological
Phonology
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 differences include:
English Dutch
Dutch language
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Wood Frisian Clay Frisian
you (singular) jij do
plum pruim prûm prom
thumb duim tûme tomme
naked naakt nêken neaken
crack kraken krêkje kreakje
weak (soft) week wêk weak
grass gras gjers gers
cherry kers kjers kers
calf kalf kjel kel

Lexical differences

Some lexical
Lexicon
In linguistics, the lexicon of a language is its vocabulary, including its words and expressions. A lexicon is also a synonym of the word thesaurus. More formally, it is a language's inventory of lexemes. Coined in English 1603, the word "lexicon" derives from the Greek "λεξικόν" , neut...

differences between Wood Frisian and Clay Frisian include:
English Wood Frisian Clay Frisian
Saturday saterdei sneon
ant mychammel
mychhimmel
eamel
eamelder
fleece flij flues
sow (pig) mot sûch
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