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The meaning of ANGLO-FRISIAN is the complex of languages descended from Old English and Old Frisian (including English, Scots and the modern Frisian dialects) considered as a linguistic group that is possibly though not necessarily descended from a single dialect of West Germanic.
The Anglo-Frisian languages are the Anglic (English, Scots, and Yola) and Frisian varieties of the West Germanic languages. The Anglo-Frisian languages are distinct from other West Germanic languages due to several sound changes: besides the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law, which is present in Low German as well, Anglo-Frisian brightening and palatalization of /k/ are for the most part unique to ...
1 de set. de 2015 · The language is noteworthy for being, linguistically speaking, the closest relative of Modern English still in existence (with the exception of Scots, which is frequently considered a dialect of English). English and Frisian can trace their shared ancestry to the Anglo-Frisian language group, a group of mutually intelligible languages to which ...
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.
For the distinction between [ ], / / and , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In historical linguistics, the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law (also called the Anglo-Frisian or North Sea Germanic nasal spirant law) is a description of a phonological development that occurred in the Ingvaeonic dialects of the West Germanic languages.
Old English developed from a set of Anglo-Frisian or Ingvaeonic dialects originally spoken by Germanic tribes traditionally known as the Angles, Saxons and Jutes. As the Germanic settlers became dominant in England, their language replaced the languages of Roman Britain : Common Brittonic , a Celtic language ; and Latin , brought to Britain by the Roman conquest .
The Anglo-Frisian languages are the Anglic ( English, Scots, Fingallian †, and Yola †) and Frisian ( North Frisian, East Frisian, and West Frisian) varieties of the West Germanic languages. Approximate present day distribution of the Anglo-Frisian languages in Europe. Hatched areas indicate where multilingualism is common.
