Re: Reinventing NATLANGs
| From: | Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 12, 2006, 9:02 |
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On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:21, Michael Adams wrote:
> Niederdeutsch does that include in some aspects English? Or was the shift
> the divide between Frisian and English?
Old Saxon was readily understandable by Old English-speaking Christian
missionaries such as St Boniface. That being said, Old Frisian - ending c.
1550 reportedly bears a great simularity to Old English:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisian_language
"One rhyme demonstrates the palpable similarity between Frisian and English:
"Butter, bread and green cheese is good English and good Friese," which is
pronounced more or less the same in both languages (Frisian: "Bûter, brea en
griene tsiis is goed Ingelsk en goed Frysk.")"
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> What about dielects/seperate lanugages like Dutch or Yiddish? As well as
> forms outside of what is now Germany and related areas..
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> English seemed to have had some Nordic influences from an early day, even
> before the move to Britain.
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> Mike
Wesley Parish
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