Promoting minority language use to foster revitalisation: insights from new speakers of West Frisian

People who have learned Frisian at a later age only use the language "very sporadically". It seems very likely that they are less comfortable using the language in front of natural speakers. This is one of the results of a study into new speakers of Frisian by researchers Ruth Kircher (Mercator/Fryske Akademy), Mirjam Vellinga (Afûk) and Ethan Kutlu (University of Iowa).