Hindelooper is spoken by some 500 people in Hindeloopen, almost all of them elderly, with the number of speakers decreasing.

[1] In 1981, the Fryske Akademy (Frisian Academy) published a dictionary of the language (then seen as a dialect) entitled Hylper Wurdboek.

[3] The new dictionary contains 1000 pages of words, grammar and synonyms and is considered the definitive version of the language.

Hylpers and Frisian are more different from each other than Afrikaans and Dutch" in an interview with Trouw regarding the dialect.

There are also a few lexical differences, such as siie instead of naaie (to sew), tät instead of happe (a child’s word for “horse”) and öie instead of sipel (onion).