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Schiermonnikoog Frisian. Schiermonnikoog Frisian is the most endangered of the West Frisian languages, spoken by no more than 50 to 100 people (out of an island population of 900 people) at the island of Schiermonnikoog ( Skiermûntseach ). [citation needed]
West Frisian has final obstruent devoicing and so voiced obstruents are merged with the voiceless obstruents at the end of words. Thus, word-final /b, d, v, z, ɣ/ are merged into voiceless /p, t, f, s, χ/, although final /b/ is rare. [17] The spelling reflects that in the case of the fricatives but not in the case of the plosives, which are ...
It is these 'new Frisians' who are largely the ancestors of the medieval and modern Frisians. Their Old Frisian language, however, was more intricately related to Old English spoken by their relatives settling abroad, than to the Old Saxon language spoken by the people staying behind in Germany.
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There isn't anybody left in today's Denmark speaking North Frisian. Frisia ( talk) 22:10, 1 February 2008 (UTC) [ reply] It is not spoken north of the border today, and since the only Frisian place names here are a couple of farm names (Poppenbøl and the like) it was probably limited to these, i.e. there was no broader Frisian-speaking community.
Statue of Pier Gerlofs Donia, the Frisian folk hero and freedom fighter 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.
Old English ( Englisċ, pronounced [ˈeŋɡliʃ] ), or Anglo-Saxon, [1] is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It developed from the languages brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the mid-5th century, and the first Old English literary ...
