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North Germanic languages. Extinct Norn was spoken in Orkney, Shetland and Caithness in what is now Scotland until the 19th century. Extinct Greenlandic Norse was spoken in the Norse settlements of Greenland until their demise in the late 15th century. The North Germanic languages make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages —a ...
Saterland Frisian, also known as Sater Frisian, Saterfrisian or Saterlandic ( Seeltersk [ˈseːltɐsk] ), spoken in the Saterland municipality of Lower Saxony in Germany, is the last living dialect of the East Frisian language. It is closely related to the other Frisian languages: North Frisian, spoken in Germany as well, and West Frisian ...
Contents 1Classification 1.1Anglic languages 1.2Frisian languages 2Anglo-Frisian developments 3Comparisons 3.1Numbers in Anglo-Frisian languages 3.2Words in English, West Riding Yorkshire, Scots, Yola, West Frisian, Dutch, German and West-Flemish 4Alternative grouping 5See also 6Notes...
The Frisian languages (/ˈfriːʒən/ FREE-zhən or /ˈfrɪziən/ FRIZ-ee-ən) are a closely related group of West Germanic languages, spoken by about 500,000 Frisian people, who live on the southern fringes of the North Sea in the Netherlands and Germany. The Frisian languages are the closest living languag.
For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. English is a language that started in Anglo-Saxon England. It is originally from Anglo-Frisian and Old Saxon dialects. English is now used as a global language. There are about 375 million native speakers (people who use it as their first language) in the world.
Like Frisian, English, Dutch and the North Germanic languages, Low German has not undergone the High German consonant shift, as opposed to Standard High German, which is based on High German dialects. Low German evolved from Old Saxon (Old Low German), which is most closely related to Old Frisian and Old English (Anglo-Saxon).
Anglo-Frisian; Geographic distribution: Originally England, Scottish Lowlands and the North Sea coast from Friesland to Jutland; today worldwide: Linguistic classification: Indo-European. Germanic. West Germanic. North Sea Germanic. Anglo-Frisian; Subdivisions: Anglic
