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The Frisian languages are the closest living language group to the Anglic languages; the two groups make up the Anglo-Frisian languages group and together with the Low German dialects these form the North Sea Germanic languages.
Frisia has changed dramatically over time, both through floods and through a change in identity. It is part of the Nordwestblock which is a hypothetical historic region linked by language and culture,where they may have spoken an Indo-European language which was neither germanic nor celtic.
Mar 22, 2024 · The Frisian language, which has many dialects, is taught in the schools in Friesland. It is acknowledged as an official language in Friesland, but it is not legally codified as such by the Dutch government.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Frisia is the traditional homeland of the Frisians, a Germanic people who speak a language closely related to English. In prehistoric times of uncertain date, the tribal Frisians migrated to the North Sea coastal region between the mouth of the Rhine River (at Katwijk, north of The Hague) and the mouth of the Ems River and ousted the resident ...
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Feb 2, 2020 · They are specifically mentioned for the first time around 12 BC, when the Roman commander-cum-politician Drusus the Elder’s account mentions the Frisii as a tribe the Romans warred against in their Rhine campaigns.
The best Frisian poetry survives in legal texts. But the inhabitants of the area called Frisia never developed into a unified ‘people’, neither politically nor indeed linguistically. They lacked a need to develop a written literature of their own.
There are many theories about the origin of the name of the Frisians, Frisii or Fresones in the Latin language as first documented in the first century AD. Most probably the name is derived from the verb fresare in the Vulgar Latin language in the meaning of 'milling, cutting, grooving, crushing, removing shells'.
