Re: CHAT: Frisian

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


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