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A close relationship exists between Old Frisian and Old English; this is due to a shared history, language and culture of the people from Northern Germany and Denmark who came to settle in England from around 400 A.D. onwards.
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.
- Kathleen Murphy’s “Frisian, the Language that's Like English” has a good summary of the facts that I've been able to dig up about the relationshi...
- I have found a competent article "What is Frisian" by a Frisian native, who is a specialist in languages as well. I gave the link already in a comm...
- the vocabulary, grammar, spellings, and syntax are the most similar of all Germanic languages. This can easily be done by comparing root words, wh...
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.
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).
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- 4,590 residents of Canada reported having Frisian ancestry in the 2016 Canadian Census.
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.
- Frederik Kortlandt
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 English and Old Frisian1 Frederik Kortlandt Rebecca Colleran’s dissertation (2016) is an important contribution to our understanding of the earliest relations between Old English and Old Frisian. She points out that “Frisia’s original population deserted Frisia almost entirely in the 4th century A.D.
