Re: CHAT: Frisian

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>Unfortunately we have not a scrap of Frisian before about the 14th
>century,
>when we get a lot of it (mostly legal documents); so-called "Old Frisian"
>is really "Middle" by the standards of the other Germanic languages.
>We can make a few guesses based on Frisian place names and words in
>Latin documents and the like.
Tsk, too bad. It would be interesting to see it at an earlier stage.
That's one of the great things about English, we have documents with some
fairly detailed texts in the early form of the language.