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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.
The Old Frisian Etymological Dictionary is an indispensable research tool for the study of Old Frisian, Germanic languages, and Proto-Indo-European. Copyright Year: 2005. Hardback. Availability: Published. ISBN: 978-90-04-14531-3. Publication date: 08 Jun 2005. Addeddate. 2023-03-14 02:55:04. Identifier. old-frisian-etymological-dictionary.
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).
Old Frisian (OF) was mainly spoken along the continental North Sea coast in what is presently the northern part of the Netherlands and northwest Germany (Bremmer, 2009). As texts from this ...
One major difference between Old Frisian and modern Frisian is that in the Old Frisian period (c. 1150 – c. 1550) grammatical cases still existed. Some of the texts that are preserved from this period are from the 12th or 13th, but most are from the 14th and 15th centuries.
The major developmental stages of the language include Old Frisian, covering the period before 1500, Middle Frisian (1500-1800) and New Frisian, developed after 1800. Today the language is spoken in many dialects, the most prominent ones being Eastern, Western and Northern.
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The History of Frisian. Frisian dates back as far as the Early Middle Ages. It began to become a language distinct from other North Sea Germanic languages, such as Old English. During the High Middle Ages, Old Frisian was used as a written language (e.g. in legal texts) and as the official regional language.
