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.

Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form Occurrences
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 ⓘ

Referenced by (10)

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

Proto-Germanic → ancestorOf → Old Frisian ⓘ
Proto-West Germanic → ancestorOf → Old Frisian ⓘ
this entity surface form: Old Low Franconian
Old Saxon → closelyRelatedTo → Old Frisian ⓘ
Middle Frisian → follows → Old Frisian ⓘ
Middle Frisian → hasAncestor → Old Frisian ⓘ
Anglo-Frisian dialects → hasPart → Old Frisian ⓘ
subject surface form: Frisian languages
this entity surface form: Old Frisian language