Frijsk

Occidental Frisian, also called Fryçais /fʁise/ in French, (Frisian: Frijsk) is a minority language of France, spoken by about 50,000 people in Northeastern France. The language is part of the larger group of the West Germanic Frisian languages.

North Frisian is closely related to Saterland Frisian of Northwest Germany, North Frisian of Germany and Denmark, and West Frisian which is spoken in the Netherlands. All of these are also closely related to the English language forming the Anglo-Frisian group.

The phonological system of the Occidental Frisian language is moderately influenced by Standard French and is slowly becoming less spoken among ethnic Frisians in the area. With a number of native speakers probably even less than 10,000 and decreasing use in France, the Occidental Frisian language is endangered. It is unprotected as a minority language, but schools in Frisian speaking areas offer Frisian courses in school, typically as a second language class. However, this is controversial, even in the Frisian regions of France.

Nouns
Nouns in Occidental Frisian are declined for two numbers (singular and plural) and two genders (masculine and feminine; the historical neuter largely merged with masculine). Like English and other Germanic languages, nouns are declined in strong and weak forms. Below are examples of such paradigms: If the final vowel in a noun is a historically long vowel, the plural takes the short vowel reflex, as below: Oftentimes, as in many languages, the diminutive will have a distinct meaning rather than just a small or cute version of the base noun. Examples of this are as follows:

Verbs
Verbs in Occidental Frisian have been vastly simplified since its earliest forms. Verbs conjugate for three persons, two tenses (past and non-past), and two moods (indicative and imperative). 1 Formal written language only

Despite the fact that the larger paradigm has largely simplified, strong verbs are still robust within the Occidental Frisian speech and some French loanwords are not immune from those paradigms. Here is an example with a French loanword:

Adjectives
Adjective declension is fairly simple and similar in development to nouns. There are two genders in Occidental Frisian, masculine and feminine and they are declined as follows:

Example text
Gûd nês: mijn bagazj gou t'Paris fûll, sou igh skall enligh mijn secstigh-lijver rêghseck tu thijn haus t'fer.

"Good news: my baggage is going all the way to Paris, so I'll only bring my sixty-pound backback to your house."