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From: Soren Harder
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 13:12
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 13:12
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desmedt@rulfsw.leidenuniv.nl writes:
West-
>Frisian ('Fries') is spoken in Friesland, a northern province of the
>Netherlands.
North-Frisian is spoken in Slesvig-Holsten (sorry, danish spelling :-)
right up to the danish border. It has been a dying language up to
recently, but some work is put into restoring it. One of its problems
is that it is mainly spoken on the islands off the coast of Germany,
which means that its different dialects have been isolated to some
extent, and hence are mutually unintelligeble. (As far as I know).
I believe something called East Frisian once existed. This language
is as far as I remember traceable further back in time. But it has
been extinct for at least a century.
Soren Harder
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!edcastle!edcogsci!sharder From: sharder@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Soren Harder) Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Re: Frisian; Germanic Dialtects (was: Welche Sprache benutzen) Message-ID: <10232@scott.ed.ac.uk> Date: 25 Jul 92 13:12:40 GMT References: <1992Jul21.173259.242@public.sub.org> <1992Jul24.083243.25862@coli.uni-sb.de> <1992Jul24.155517.1@rulfsw.leidenuniv.nl> Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK Lines: 23