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Strangely Familiar, Yet Quite Different

At the end of May, the FUEN Working Group “Non-Kin-State” met in the South Tyrolean Val Badia. Christoph G. Schmidt, director of the Nordfriisk Instituut – dedicated to the research, promotion, and preservation of the North Frisian language, history, and culture – was invited as a guest speaker and discovered many connections to Frisian.

Annual meeting in South Tyrol: Minorities without a kin-state call for greater visibility of their languages at major events

Minorities without a kin-state gather in South Tyrol

Between 29 May and 1 June 2025, the Non-Kin-State Working Group will hold its annual meeting – this time with the Ladins in St. Vigil in Enneberg/Al Plan de Maréo (Gadertal/Val Badia, South Tyrol, Italy).

North Frisian for all – how AI helps to spread a German minority language

The Ferring Stiftung in Alkersum, located on the German island of Föhr, has used machine learning to develop its own translation programme for Föhr Frisian (Fering).