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In the case of Anglo-Frisian we can identify an initial stage with developments that were partly shared with some of the neighboring German dialects, a formative stage with monophthongization of *ai to ā and fronting of *a to æ, followed by the early migration to southern England and continental Anglo-Frisian developments such as the raising ...
Old English developed from a set of West Germanic dialects, often grouped as Anglo-Frisian or North Sea Germanic, and originally spoken along the coasts of Frisia, Lower Saxony and southern Jutland by Germanic peoples known to the historical record as the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes.
11 de out. de 2010 · Frisian is historically part of the Anglo-Frisian sub-branch of the West Germanic languages. It shares a number of key phonological developments with English, which go back to dialect differentiation in the period preceding the Anglo-Saxon emigration to Britain. It has since been in contact with both Danish varieties, and with closely related ...
6 de set. de 1999 · The English language shows more affinities with Frisian than with the allegedly neighboring Old Saxon dialects, in fact, some authorities argue for an Anglo-Frisian branch of West Germanic. Some scholars think that there were no Jutes at all and that Bede made a mistake.
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The result is that Frisian now has a great deal in common with Dutch and the adjacent Low German dialects, bringing it into the West Germanic dialect continuum, whereas English has stronger North Germanic and non-Germanic influences than the languages on the mainland.
