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The West Frisians ((ドイツ語:Westfriesen)) – or, more precisely, the Westlauwers Frisians – are those Frisian peoples in that part of Frisia administered by the Netherlands: the Province of Friesland, which is bounded in the west by the IJsselmeer and in the east by the River Lauwers (hence the name ''Westlauwers'', i.e., "west of the Lauwers"). In Germany, Dutch Frisia is often usually called "West Frisia" (''ドイツ語:Westfriesland''), because the German part is called "East Frisia" (''ドイツ語:Ostfriesland''), hence the term "West Frisians" (''ドイツ語:Westfriesen''). However, in the Netherlands, the term ' is only used to refer to the inhabitants of the unconnected region of West Friesland and not to the Westlauwers Frisians. The Westerlauwers Frisians are related to the North Frisians and the eastern Frisians (East Frisians, Saterland Frisians etc.). Whilst the East Frisians had lost their Frisian language by the late Middle Ages, of the 660,000 or so Frisians in the Netherlands, more than 400,000 still speak West Frisian.〔1997 data, 〕 Many Frisian Americans descend from West Frisians. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「West Frisians」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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