Re: CHAT: Frisian

On Thu, 05 Sep 2002 08:42, Barry Garcia wrote:
> CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
> >Is it just me, or does it seem that frisian is mor Dutch-esque...
>
> Ya, but is that Frisian Old Frisian from the same era as the Old English,
Old Frisian's from about five-to-seven hundred years old.  Old English is
about one thousand three hundred years old.

Old Frisian's not "modern" in that sense, but it's definitely not "ancient"
in that sense either.  It's probably what close to what we'd've been speaking
in the 1400s if the Norman Conquest hadn't taken place.

Wesley Parish

> or is it modern? I'd expect modern Frisian to look a lot more like Dutch
> than Old English.
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