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Re: CHAT: Frisian

From:Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...>
Date:Thursday, September 5, 2002, 11:58
On Thu, 05 Sep 2002 07:25, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote:
> On Sep/04/2002, Pavel Iosad wrote: > > actually a 3000-thousand Russian-Frisian (Fering) lexicon, together with > > Sorry to play the fool, but ... what language is frisian? I've > heard of it sometimes, but it seemed to me like a dead language, like > latin :-m Am I very wrong?
Frisian is the Germanic language closest to English; it is spoken in the north of the Netherlands, in an enclave in Saxony south of Hamburg and on the South-West coast and islands of Denmark. (The Frisians were the Angles and Saxones who missed the boat and decided not to swim. The Jutes/Geatas were from South Sweden - read all about it in Beowulf! ;) Wesley Parish
> > > Frisian language, Netherlands Frisian being the accepted standard. > > Well, that answers a bit my question :-m But I thought that > dutch was the only language in Netherlands :-m
-- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."