Old Frisian was the West Germanic language spoken between the 8th and 16th centuries by the people who had settled in the area between the Rhine and Elbe on the European North Sea coast in the 4th and 5th centuries. The West Germanic languages constitute the largest of the three traditional branches of the Germanic family of Languages and include languages such as English The 8th century is the period from 701 to 800 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian / Common Era. The Rhine (Rhein Rijn Rhin Reno Rain Rhenus is one of the longest and most important Rivers in Europe at 1320 kilometres (820 mi with an average discharge The Elbe ( die Elbe Low German: de Ilv) is one of the major Rivers of Central Europe. The North Sea is a marginal, Epeiric sea of the Atlantic Ocean on the European Continental shelf. As a means of recording the passage of Time, the 4th century (per the Julian calendar and Anno Domini / Common era) was that Century The 5th century is the period from 401 to 500 in accordance with the Julian calendar in Anno Domini / Common Era. Their ancient homes were originally North Germany and Denmark. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. The Kingdom of Denmark ( ˈd̥ænmɑɡ̊ (archaic ˈd̥anmɑːɡ̊ commonly known as Denmark, is a country in the Scandinavian region of northern Europe The language of the earlier inhabitants of the region (the Frisians famously mentioned by Tacitus) is not attested. The Frisians are an ethnic group of Germanic people living in coastal parts of The Netherlands and Germany. Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (ca 56 &ndash ca 117 was a senator and a Historian of the Roman Empire. Old Frisian evolved into Middle Frisian spoken from the 16th to the 19th century. Middle Frisian evolved from Old Frisian from the 16th century and was spoken until ca

During the whole of the Middle Ages, Fryslân stretched from the area around Bruges, in what is now Belgium, to the river Weser, in northern Germany. Friesland ( West Frisian: Fryslân, Dutch Friesland) is a province in the north of the Netherlands and part of the bigger region known Bruges (Brugge is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium. The Kingdom of Belgium is a Country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters as well as those The Weser (ˈveːzɐ is a River in north-western Germany. Formed at Hann Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. At that time, the Frisian language was spoken along the entire southern North Sea coast. The North Sea is a marginal, Epeiric sea of the Atlantic Ocean on the European Continental shelf. Today this region is sometimes referred to as Great Frisia or Frisia Magna, and many of the areas within it still treasure their Frisian heritage, even though in most places the Frisian languages have been lost.

The people from North Germany and Denmark who settled in England from the 4th century onward, came from the same region and spoke the same language as the people who had settled in Fryslân. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Therefore a close resemblance exists between Old Frisian and Old English. This similarity was reinforced in the late Middle Ages by the Ingaevonic sound shift (Anglo-Frisian nasal spirant law), which affected Frisian and English, but affected Old Saxon only slightly, and not at all any of the other West Germanic varieties. The Ingaevones or Ingvaeones ("people of Yngvi " as described in In Historical linguistics, the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law (also called the Anglo-Frisian or North Sea Germanic nasal spirant law) is a description Old Saxon, also known as Old Low German ( ISO 639 -3 code osx) is the earliest recorded form of Low German, documented from the 9th century The West Germanic languages constitute the largest of the three traditional branches of the Germanic family of Languages and include languages such as English

Phonology and grammar

Also, when followed by some vowels, the Germanic /k/ softened to a /tʃ/ sound; for example, the Frisian for cheese and church is tsiis and tsjerke, whereas in Dutch it is kaas and kerk. Dutch ( is a West Germanic language spoken by around 24 million people 22 million of which are from the Netherlands, Belgium and Suriname One rhyme traditional to both England and Friesland demonstrates the palpable similarity between Frisian and English: "Bread, butter, and green cheese is good English and good Fries," which is pronounced more or less the same in both languages (Frisian: "Brea, bûter, en griene tsiis is goed Ingelsk en goed Frysk. ")

Old Frisian (c. 1150-c. 1550) retained grammatical cases. In Linguistics, declension (or declination) is the occurrence of Inflection in Nouns Pronouns and Adjectives indicating Some of the texts that are preserved from this period are from the twelfth or thirteenth, but most are from the 14th and 15th centuries. Generally, all these texts are restricted to legalistic writings. Although the earliest definite written examples of Frisian are from approximately the 9th century, there are a few examples of runic inscriptions from the region which are probably older and possibly in the Frisian language. The 9th century is the period from 801 to 900 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian / Common Era. These runic writings however usually do not amount to more than single- or few-word inscriptions.

Corpus

There are some early Frisian names preserved in Latin texts, and some runic (Futhorc) inscriptions, but the oldest surviving texts in Old Frisian date from the 13th century, in particular official and legal documents. Futhorc, a Runic alphabet used by the Anglo-Saxons, was descended from the Elder Futhark of 24 runes and contained between 26 and 33 characters They show a considerable degree of linguistic uniformity.

• Westeremden yew-stick (ca. The Westeremden yew-stick is a Yew -wood stick found in Westeremden B in the Groningen province in 1917 bearing a Old Frisian Futhorc 750-900)
• Fon Alra Fresena Fridome [1]
• Hunsigo MSS H1, H2: Ten Commandements[2], 17 petitiones [3]
• Londriucht [4]
• Thet Freske Riim [5]
• Skeltana Riucht law code [6]

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