Ooststellingwerf
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Ooststellingwerf [ˈoːststɛlɪŋˌʋɛr(ə)f] is a municipality in the province of Friesland in the northern Netherlands. It is one of the municipalities of Friesland where the spoken language is not West Frisian; instead, Stellingwerfs, a dialect of Dutch Low Saxon, is spoken here.