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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.
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.
Just as Frisia became depopulated in the 4th century, archaeology suggests that Angeln (now East Schleswig, Germany) experienced some level of depopulation in the 5th to 9th cen-turies, as Germanic people settled in England and Frisia.
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).
- 350,000
- 120,000
- 60,000
- 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
Jan 5, 2009 · Written by an experienced teacher and researcher in the field, An Introduction to Old Frisian is an essential resource for students and researchers of Frisian, Old English and other 'Old'...
Written by an experienced teacher and researcher in the field, An Introduction to Old Frisian is an essential resource for students and researchers of Frisian, Old English and other ‘Old’ Germanic languages and cultures, and for medievalists working in this area.
