It is also spoken in four villages in the Westerkwartier of the neighbouring province of Groningen. These branches are: West Frisian, which is by far the most spoken of the three and is an official language in the Dutch province of Friesland, where it is spoken on the mainland and on two of the West Frisian Islands: Terschelling and Schiermonnikoog. There are three different Frisian branches, which are usually called the Frisian languages, despite the fact that their so-called dialects are often not mutually intelligible even within these branches. However, modern English and Frisian are not mutually intelligible, nor are Frisian languages intelligible among themselves, owing to independent linguistic innovations and foreign influences. The Frisian languages are the closest living language group to the Anglic languages the two groups make up the Anglo-Frisian languages group and together with the Low German dialects these form the North Sea Germanic languages. 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.
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