Hindeloopen Frisian

Hindeloopen Frisian
Hindeloopen Frisian
Hindeloopen–Molkwerum Frisian
Hylpers
Native to	Netherlands
Ethnicity	Frisians
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic North Sea Germanic Anglo-Frisian Frisian West Frisian Hindeloopen Frisian; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	hind1273

Hindeloopen Frisian (natively Hylpers, West Frisian: Hylpersk, also referred to as Hindeloopers in English and Dutch) is a West Frisian variety spoken in the port town of Hindeloopen and the village of Molkwerum on the west coast of Friesland. It has preserved much of the Old Frisian phonology and lexicon, and has been attested to since the 17th Century. Hindelooper is spoken by some 500 people in Hindeloopen, almost all of them elderly, with the number of speakers decreasing.

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