Re: CHAT: Frisian

Barry Garcia scripsit:

> Ya, but is that Frisian Old Frisian from the same era as the Old English,
> or is it modern? I'd expect modern Frisian to look a lot more like Dutch
> than Old English.
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.

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