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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.
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.
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.
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 also spoke Old Frisian, but there are no known medieval texts from this area.
Old Frisian was a language spoken between the 13th and 16th century, in the area between the Weser and the Zuiderzee. It is the common ancestor of the Frisian languages , Today, laws and deeds which use Old Frisian remain.
- 8th to 16th centuries
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Feb 2, 2020 · The earliest ancestors of modern Frisians were the Frisii - an ancient Germanic tribe that inhabited roughly the same region as their modern descendants. This is the so-called delta of the Rhine, Meuse, and Scheldt rivers, a region which contains many islands and is generally a low-lying area.
Oct 10, 2019 · Early Germanic Dialects - Old Frisian - The Historical Linguist Channel. October 10, 2019 by Sabina Nedelius. Early Germanic Dialects – Old Frisian. It’s time for our second language in the Anglo-Frisian branch of the West Germanic languages! Let’s take a look at Old Frisian!