A number of 6,370 speakers is cited by Fort, Marron C., "Das Saterfriesische", in Munske (2001), p. 410. A 1995 poll counted 2,225 speakers: Stellmacher, Dieter (1995). Das Saterland und das Saterländische (بالألمانية). Florian Isensee GmbH. ISBN:978-3-89598-567-6. Ethnologue refers to a monolingual population of 5,000 but this number was originally not meant for speakers but for persons counting themselves among the Saterland Frisian ethnic group.
