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Old Frisian

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FRISIAN - Sister Language(s) of English!

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The Sound of the Sylt North Frisian language (UDHR, Numbers, Greetings & Story)

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Reading a story in an old Frisian language

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Mongrel Nation - Brown cow

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Similarities Between Norwegian and Frisian

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 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.