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A bibliography and a select index complete the book. Written by an experienced teacher and researcher in the field, An Introduction to Old Frisian is an essential resource for students and researchers of Frisian, Old English and other 'Old' Germanic languages and cultures, and for medievalists working in this area.
5 de jan. de 2009 · This part is concluded by a chapter on the Old Frisian dialects and one on problems regarding the periodization of Frisian and the close relationship between (Old) Frisian and (Old) English. Part Two consists of a reader with a representative selection of twenty-one texts with explanatory notes and a full glossary.
Old English language, language spoken and written in England before 1100; it is the ancestor of Middle English and Modern English. Scholars place Old English in the Anglo-Frisian group of West Germanic languages. Learn more about the Old English language in this article.
Frisian is believed to be the closest living language to Old English, and has its roots in the language spoken by the ancient Frisian tribes who inhabited the region from the 4th to the 8th century. Dutch, on the other hand, is a language that evolved from Low Franconian dialects spoken in the Netherlands and Belgium in the Middle Ages.
English is classified as an Anglo-Frisian language because Frisian and English share other features, such as the palatalisation of consonants that were velar consonants in Proto-Germanic (see Phonological history of Old English § Palatalization).
Frisian is the closest living language to English (after Scots), and it is frequently possible for speakers of Frisian and English to communicate across lang...
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[0580] OLD FRISIAN AND THE OLD ENGLISH DIALECTS It is a peculiar fact that each of the three Old English dialects, Anglian, West Saxon and Kentish, has, by different scholars, been considered more closely connected with old Frisian than has either of the remaining dialects. Ferd.
