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Old Frisian is a West Germanic language spoken between the 8th and 16th centuries in the area between the Rhine and Weser
on the European North Sea coast. The Frisian settlers on the coast of South Jutland (today's Northern Friesland) also spoke
Old Frisian but no medieval texts of this area are known. The language of the earlier inhabitants of the region between the
Zuiderzee and Ems River is attested in only a few personal names and place-names. Old Frisian evolved into Middle Frisian,
spoken from the 16th to the 19th century. In the early Middle Ages, Frisia stretched from the area around Bruges, in what
is now Belgium, to the Weser River, in northern Germany. At the time, the Frisian language was spoken along the entire southern
North Sea coast. This region is referred to as Greater Frisia or Frisia Magna, and many of the areas within it still treasure
their Frisian heritage. However by 1300, their territory had been pushed back to the Zuiderzee, and the Frisian language survives
along the coast only as a substrate. The people from what are today northern Germany and Denmark who settled in England from
about 400 onwards came from the same regions and spoke more or less the same language as the people who lived in Frisia (as
medieval Friesland is usually called to distinguish it from the present-day regions with that name). Hence, a close relationship
exists between Old Frisian and Old English. |
Names (more)[de] Altfriesische Sprache[en] Frisian, Old [eo] Malnovfrisa lingvo [fr] Vieux frison [fy] Aldfrysk [hr] Starofrizijski jezik [it] Antico frisone [kk] Көне фриз тілі [nl] Oudfries [es] Frisón antiguo |
Language type : Ancient
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