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This video is all about FRISIAN, a close relative of the English language.
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Music:
“Actually Like” by Twin Musicom.
Outro: “The Jazz Piano” by Bensound.com
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_provinces_Netherlands-en.svg. Author: alphathon.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:North Frisian Dialects.png. Author: Onno Gabriel.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frisian_languages_in_Europe.svg. Authors: ArnoldPlaton, Hayden120.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Friesengebiet.png. Authors: Temmo Bosse, card without lettering.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frize_langue_frisonne_2011.png. Author: Semoziade.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gysbert_Japix_portrait_by_Matthijs_Harings.tif. Authors: Fries Museum, Leeuwarden; Collection The Royal Frisian Society.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anglo-Frisian_distribution_map.svg. Author: Alphathon.
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Frisian kinda sounds like a mix of Swedish/Norwegian, Russian and German all at the same time while an English person tries to speak french or polish
Speaking English and German I'm finding this almost completely intelligible, it's quite fascinating. At least phonetically.
English is derived from French, German and Latin.
Hi! I’m a native Frisian speaker and I speak Frisian almost everywhere. At the supermarket, at the doctor’s, at school/work and around my friends and family. I live in the north of Fryslân where it is perfectly normal to speak Frisian rather than Dutch. Most people prefer the Frisian language around here. In fact, I only use Dutch when someone doesn't understand the Frisian language. Nonetheless, my Dutch is just as good as my Frisian, because here at schools everything is focussed on the Dutch language, which mostly results in illiteracy in the Frisian language.
Best channel about languages!
Old(er) English seems to have had a lot of words as well as grammar in common with Frisian (and old Dutch).
(Old) English words like "leof" versus the Dutch/Frisian "lief", and a bit later, "knight" versus "knecht" (=servant). and many many more.
Also didn't the English used to use numbers like four-and-twenty a lot more ages ago too?
Something interesting about West-Frisian is that there are actually TWO "West-Frisian's". There is the language that is spoken in the north-eastern part of the Netherlands (which is what this video is about) and there is the dialect that is spoken in part of upper North Holland. Here in the Netherlands the former is usually called just Frisian (without the "West") while the latter is called West-Frisian. The latter is probably a lot less well known though.
The West-Frisian dialect has it's own Wikipedia-page: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/West-Fries_(dialectgroep)
I speak fluently Dutch, German and 3 also other languages. Considering the first 2 languges I listed, these help me understand a lot of Frisian. Sometimes I wonder if Frisian is a language or a dialect?
English is the only germanic language that hang out with French. Am I wrong? That's why it's far away from the other Germanic languages.
I wish I could speak English without Romance influence.
For those who are just looking for an easy language to learn, I would suggest learning Dutch instead of Frisian. There are way more resources available, you'll have a way easier time finding people to practice with, and it's also one of those languages where if you just say an English word or even whole phrase with the appropriate accent there's a pretty good chance you'll get it right lol.
Frisian to me feels like a drunk toddler with a Norwegian father and english mother and he is going to a Dutch school
Frisian Flag 😍
So Frisian just devoleped with Germanic Lang's instead of romlangs like English cool
I love, love how languages are common and then change. I wish I cod speak all of them.
The birthhouse of gysbert japiks is about 1km from my house
Blikstiender? demonatized!
It never stops to amuse me how in europe you walk 5 miles and people already start speaking another language.
I bet most of wars in europe starting because some one asked for salt and the other one understood that his wife looks like a goat.
"Wait this is all a misunderstanding!"
"Now you say you are going to bury me under my standard? DIE!"
Honestly this is very similar to Dutch. More similar than English is
It's like 2 brothers were seperated at birth and 1 brother grew up with a different personality… They have a single root but went different ways…
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Dat wiet ik noch zo sniel net
My wife's parents live in South Holland.
In Lincolnshire.
In England.
It's very flat.
Sounds more like German
Sounds more related to Dutch with Danish and Swedish grammatical elements….
"Fanwege" is certainly a loan from Dutch, but Dutch "vanwege" shows a Frisian influence.
The original Dutch word, after all, is the (genetive case) "wegens"…