Old Frisian

E23900

West Germanic language historical language medieval language

Old Frisian is an early medieval West Germanic language, ancestral to modern Frisian, once spoken along the North Sea coast in what is now the northern Netherlands and northwestern Germany.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Old Frisian canonical	15
Old Frisian language	1
Old Low Franconian	1

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	West Germanic language ⓘ historical language ⓘ medieval language ⓘ
ancestralTo	East Frisian Low Saxon (partly) ⓘ North Frisian ⓘ Saterland Frisian ⓘ Frisian (partially) ⓘ surface form: West Frisian
closelyRelatedTo	Old English ⓘ Old Saxon ⓘ
endTime	circa 16th century ⓘ
era	High Middle Ages ⓘ early Middle Ages ⓘ
extinctionPeriod	early modern period ⓘ
followedBy	Middle Frisian ⓘ
hasDescendant	Frisian (partially) ⓘ surface form: Modern Frisian languages
hasWritingTradition	yes ⓘ
ISO639-3	ofs ⓘ
languageFamily	Germanic ⓘ Indo-European language family ⓘ surface form: Indo-European Anglo-Frisian dialects ⓘ surface form: North Sea Germanic West Germanic languages ⓘ surface form: West Germanic
lexicalSimilarity	high with Old English ⓘ
morphologicalFeature	four-case nominal system (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative) ⓘ grammatical gender (masculine, feminine, neuter) ⓘ strong and weak verb distinction ⓘ
notableCorpus	Old Frisian law codes ⓘ
phonologicalFeature	Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law ⓘ loss of nasal before fricatives ⓘ
primaryTextType	charters ⓘ law codes ⓘ legal texts ⓘ oaths ⓘ
region	Friesland ⓘ surface form: Frisia North Sea ⓘ surface form: North Sea coast present-day northern Netherlands ⓘ present-day northwestern Germany ⓘ
scriptDirection	left-to-right ⓘ
spokenIn	Frisian coastal areas between Rhine and Weser ⓘ
startTime	circa 8th century ⓘ
status	extinct ⓘ
subclassOf	Frisian (partially) ⓘ surface form: Frisian languages Germanic languages ⓘ Indo-European language family ⓘ surface form: Indo-European languages Anglo-Frisian dialects ⓘ surface form: Ingvaeonic languages
writingSystem	Latin script ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Anglo-Frisian dialects → hasPart → Old Frisian ⓘ

Anglo-Frisian dialects → closelyRelatedTo → Old Frisian ⓘ

this entity surface form: Old Low Franconian

West Germanic languages → includesLanguage → Old Frisian ⓘ

Proto-Germanic → ancestorOf → Old Frisian ⓘ

Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law → appliesTo → Old Frisian ⓘ

Middle Frisian → follows → Old Frisian ⓘ

Middle Frisian → hasAncestor → Old Frisian ⓘ

Proto-West Germanic → ancestorOf → Old Frisian ⓘ

Old Saxon → closelyRelatedTo → Old Frisian ⓘ

Frisian (partially) → historicalAncestor → Old Frisian ⓘ

subject surface form: Frisian languages

this entity surface form: Old Frisian language

West Frisian → hasAncestralLanguage → Old Frisian ⓘ

Scharrel dialect → hasAncestor → Old Frisian ⓘ

Strücklingen dialect → hasAncestor → Old Frisian ⓘ

Frisia → historicalLanguage → Old Frisian ⓘ

Liudger → languageOfWorkOrName → Old Frisian ⓘ

Frisian freedom → languageOfRecord → Old Frisian ⓘ

Frisian (Westerkwartiers dialect) → hasLanguageAncestor → Old Frisian ⓘ