public_comment: "The main dialects Klaaifrysk, Wâldfrysk and Súdwesthoeks are mutually intelligible, whereas the archaic dialect of Hylpen and Skylge differ a lot from the main dialects and are difficult to understand for other speakers of Frisian. A general standard of Frisian has been accepted, which is mainly based on the Klaaifrysk dialect. (de Graaf 2014)",
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public_comment: ""The province of Friesland has about 600,000 inhabitants and about half of these can be considered first-language speakers of Frisian. A sociolinguistic study in 1994 revealed that 94% of the population of Friesland can understand the language, 74% can speak it, 65% are able to read Frisian (however, most of them read Dutch more easily) and 17% write Frisian. Frisian is spoken in 55% of the homes. Speakers of Frisian form a (great) majority in most rural areas, and a (small) minority in the towns and citites, on the Frisian Isles and in the Stellingwerven (two Low-Saxon municipalities in the southeastern part of the province). Practically all Frisian speakers are bilingual in Dutch."",
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public_comment: "415,000 within Friesland; 350,000 mother tongue speakers. No reliable source is available for native speakers worldwide. Good or very good Frisian language proficiency in the province of Friesland is at 85% for understanding the language, 64% for speaking, 48% for reading, and 12% for writing. 45% of the population speak Frisian with their partner, 48% speak Frisian with their children [Taalatlas 2011]. Between 1980 and 2014, the percentage of parents speaking Frisian with their children decreased from 58% to 48%. The ability to speak Frisian well or very well fell from 85% to 64% between 1967 and 2014 [Taalatlas 2011].",
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