Talk:Saterland Frisian language

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I've tagged this article for clean-up. It confuses Saterland Frisian with East Frisian. The respective Ethnologue reports (stq and frs) say they are different, but they too are confusing. --Gareth Hughes 16:02, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Check Ostfriesische Sprache, and related pages. It appears that Seeltersk (Saterland Frisian) is the single surviving East Frisian dialect. However, East Frisian is also used to refer to the Lower Saxon dialect of East Frisia: East Frisian Low Saxon. In the Ethnologue, frs refers to the Lower Saxon language.

In my opinion, East Frisian should be made a disambiguation page, and a separate page for the East Frisian branch of the Frisian languages should be put up. --Benne 17:31, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

This article may be too precise for its own good. East Frisan Platt is a Lower Saxon dialect. However, the article specifies "East Frisian language", not "dialect". This is one of the three Frisian languages, and of this language Saterland Frisian is indeed the last surviving dialect. Of course, the history of the East Frisian language need not be treated in length on this page at all.

If "frs" is the Ethnologue code for East Frisan Platt, that's an unfortunate historical coincidence: Since 2005 this is the ISO 639-2 code for Sater Frisian. Aliter 20:24, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

In my opinion, the problem could be solved by replacing "East Frisian" in this article by "Old East Frisian", as is also the linguistic term.--Pyt 21:19, 2 October 2006 (UTC)