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Frisian is the language most closely related to English and Scots, but after at least five hundred years of being subject to the influence of Dutch, modern Frisian in some aspects bears a greater similarity to Dutch than to English; one must also take into account the centuries-long drift of English away from Frisian.
22. März 2024 · Frisian, people of western Europe whose name survives in that of the mainland province of Friesland and in that of the Frisian Islands off the coast of the Netherlands but who once occupied a much more extensive area. In prehistoric times the Frisians inhabited the coastal regions from the mouth of.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Frisian language, the West Germanic language most closely related to English. Although Frisian was formerly spoken from what is now the province of Noord-Holland (North Holland) in the Netherlands along the North Sea coastal area to modern German Schleswig, including the offshore islands in this.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Germanic tribes in the 5th century. Historical settlement areas of the Frisians, and areas where a Frisian language is spoken. From the third through the fifth centuries, Frisia suffered marine transgressions that made most of the land uninhabitable, aggravated by a change to a cooler and wetter climate.
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- 4,590 residents of Canada reported having Frisian ancestry in the 2016 Canadian Census.
6. Feb. 2013 · The central focus is on the West, East and North Frisian dialects in the Netherlands and Germany, standard West Frisian, the history of the Frisian languages and literatures and Old Frisian in the Middle Ages. Introductory articles give a detailed survey of the present-day institutions and main areas of research and language ...
- Horst Haider Munske
- February 06, 2013
23. Okt. 2019 · A moderate but fairly continuous flow of Frisian texts since ca. 1400, written in a language that did not develop a standardized form until the nineteenth century, opens a window on 600 years of language history.
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.
