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10 de mai. de 2013 · While it's “now believed that the hypothesis that Old English and Frisian can be derived from a single Anglo-Frisian mother tongue is an oversimplification” (Hallen, 1998), it's likely that Anglo-Saxon and Old Frisian belonged to a group of mutually intelligible languages.
Old Frisian was a West Germanic language spoken between the 8th and 16th centuries along the North Sea coast, roughly between the mouths of the Rhine and Weser rivers. The Frisian settlers on the coast of South Jutland (today's Northern Friesland) also spoke Old Frisian, but there are no known medieval texts from this area.
Thus, the archaeological and genetic evidence supports the idea that English and Frisian have a common ancestor, appropriately called Anglo-Frisian, that was spoken in the northern part of Germany and spread westwards along the coast in the 5th century.
Old Frisian, [page needed] however, was very similar to Old English. Historically, both English and Frisian are marked by the loss of the Germanic nasal in words like us (ús; uns in German), soft (sêft; sanft) or goose (goes; Gans): see Anglo-Frisian nasal spirant law.
Just as Frisia became depopulated in the 4th century, archaeology suggests that Angeln (now East Schleswig, Germany) experienced some level of depopulation in the 5th to 9th cen-turies, as Germanic people settled in England and Frisia.
Old Frisian shows all the features that distinguish English and Frisian from the other Germanic languages. Although Frisian was little used as a written language for about 300 years after the end of the Old Frisian period, there has been a revival in modern times in the West Frisian area.
Old Frisian is the most closely related language to Old English and the modern Frisian dialects are in turn the closest related languages to contemporary English that do not themselves derive from Old English (although the modern Frisian and English are not mutually intelligible).
