Wangerooge Frisian

The Wangerooger Frisian was a dialect of the East Frisian language, which was spoken to about 1930 on Wangerooge. The Wangerooger Frisian Frisian dialect belonged to the Weser group of the East Frisian. This dialect was by maintaining th fricatives in eg thre "three" and the final sounds as stressed in schüpu " ships" marked.

The Wangeroogische was next to the Sater Frisian one of the few variants of the Frisian language, which had been preserved here as a linguistic island. Due to the relocation of most of the Wangerooger population due to the catastrophic floods of winter 1854/55 to Varel in the present settlement " New Wangerooge " the Wangerooger language community has been torn apart. In the resettlement of the island a few years later, the ancient inhabitants were not considered. This caused a break in the speech tradition. However, the Wangerooger Frisian could then argue at locations on the mainland for a while. However, the shared language community was no longer produce viable. On the island, the last speaker died in 1930, died in 1950 in Varel, finally, the last two native speakers of Frisian Wangerooger. Thus, the language is considered extinct.

There are several recordings of stories in this language. In the 1990s, the West Frisian researchers Pyt Kramer found in the estate of Heinrich Georg Traut's honor ( 1798-1866 ) more than a thousand pages with Wangeroogischen texts.