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ofsOld Frisian  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Old Frisian is a West Germanic language spoken between the 8th and 16th centuries in the area between the Rhine and Weser on the European North Sea coast. The Frisian settlers on the coast of South Jutland (today's Northern Friesland) also spoke Old Frisian but no medieval texts of this area are known. The language of the earlier inhabitants of the region between the Zuiderzee and Ems River (the Frisians famously mentioned by Tacitus) is attested in only a few personal names and place-names. Old Frisian evolved into Middle Frisian, spoken from the 16th to the 19th century.

Entry terms

  • Frisian, Old

ISO 639-3 code

  • ofs

Notation

  • ofs

In other languages

  • Vieux frison

    French

  • Altfriesische Sprache

    German

  • Antico frisone

    Italian

  • Frisón antiguo

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/ofs

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