Goesharde Frisian

The term Goes Harder Frisian is a summary name for three of the ten major dialects of the North Frisian language, which are in the two Goes Harden (north of Husum ) spoken in North Frisia. Differences are the Norder, Central and Southshore Goes Harder Frisian. The Southshore Goes Harder went with the last two speakers, who died in 1980 or on 10 October 1981 in Hattstedt under. So that means Goes Harder is now the southern dialect of the Mainland North Frisian dialects.

Current Situation

The two remaining Goes Harder dialects are threatened with extinction. So writes the Frisist Nils Århammar: "On the progressive change of language Frisian → Low German on the mainland and the islets at the beginning of the 20th century, we are very well informed by the incoming language statistics in Ernst Brandt's thesis, North Frisian language Goes Harden ' (Hall 1913. . ) Brandt has collected and differentiated by men, women and children only in the north-western, secluded Warftendorf Ockholm ( Norder Goes Harde ) all households one can still ' rightly speak of a Frisian village ' - and so 100 years ago only! here the Frisian households and children were still in the majority. "

The Middle Goes Harder Frisian is extremely threatened, so Århammar, in 2006, had died in Bohmstedt the last speaker of the local variant of Frisian. Only speak in neighboring Drelsdorf few people the medium goes harder Frisian.