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Bökingharde Frisian
Böökinghiirder frasch
Bilingual town sign (German-Mooring) in Niebüll
Native to	Germany
Region	Bökingharde, Nordfriesland
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Ingvaeonic Anglo-Frisian Frisian North Frisian Mainland Bökingharde Frisian
Dialects	East Mooring West Mooring
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	moor1245
Linguasphere	52-ACA-eab
North Frisian dialects

Bökingharde Frisian (Böökinghiirder frasch), also known as Mooring, is a dialect of the North Frisian language spoken in Niebüll and the amt of Bökingharde in the German region of North Frisia. The dialect forms part of the mainland group of North Frisian dialects.

The Mooring subdialects are spoken in the Risum Bog (Risem Moor or Risem Måår). Mooring is often used as a North Frisian lingua franca, especially on the internet, and there is a Mooring Frisian primary school in Risum-Lindholm.

Orthography

Vowels

1. unstressed pronunciation

Consonants

1. /ɡ/ is , or deleted intervocalically
2. /s/ in initial position, /z/ between vowels

References

1. "b" (PDF). The Linguasphere Register. p. 142. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 August 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
2. "Boekingharde" (in German). Nordfriisk Instituut. Archived from the original on 11 October 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2012.

External links

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