Thursday, January 17, 2013

English's link to Frisian

The Frisian languages are the closest living languages to English, and they all make up the Anglo-Frisian sub-family of languages.

One sees so many words that exist in English, or else existed in Old English, but don't have cognates anywhere else but in Frisian. I will include the numerals in English, Old English, and several Frisian dialects below:




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