Old Freesish tung

Old Frish tung was the west teutonish tung spoken between the eightth and sixteenth hundredyears, by the folk who, from their olden homes in northern Germany and Denmark, had settled in the ground between the rivers Rhine and Elbe on the Europish North Sea strand in the fourth and fifth hundredyears. The tung of the earlier folk living in the landship (the Frish nameknownly told of by Tacitus) is not born witness to. Old Frish became Middle Frish spoken from the sixteenth to the nineteenth hundredyear.

Throughout the whole of the Middle Eldths, the Fryslân streched from the ground around Bruges, in what is now Belgium, to the river Weser, in northern Germany. At that time, the Frish tung was spoken along the entire southern North Sea strand. Today this landship is sometimes spoken of as Great Frieseland or Frisia Magna, and many of the grounds within it still look up to their Frish roots, even though in most stows the Frish tungs have been lost.

The folk from northern Germany and Denmark who settled in England from the fourth hundredyear onward, came from the same landship and spoke the same tung as the folk who had settled in Fryslân. Therefore there is a near alikeness between Old Frish and Old English. This alikeness was strengthened in the late Middle Eldths by the Ingvaeonish loudshift (Anglo-Frish nose narrowloud law), in which Frish and English took a share, but in which Old Saxon took a share only slightly, and none of the other west Teutonish tungs.

Speechsteadlore and stavecraft
Also, when followed by some selflouds, the teutonish k softened to a ch loud, such as the Frish for cheese and church is tsiis and tsjerke, whereas in Dutch it is kaas and kerk. One rhyme homegrown to both England and Friesland shows the clear alikeness between Frish and English: "Bread, butter and green cheese is good English and good Frish.", which is louded more or less the same in both tungs (Frish: "Brea, bûter, en griene tsiis is goed Ingelsk en goed Frysk.")

Old Frish (about 1150-1550) withheld stavecraftly bendlings. Some of the writings that have been kept from this tide are from the twelfth or thirteenth, but most are from the fourteenth and fifteenth hundredyears. All in all, these writings are only lawfulsome writings. Although the earliest known written earnestnesses of Frish are from about the nineth hundredyear, there are a few earnestnesses of runish writings from the landship which are most likely older and likely in the Frish tung. These runish writings however are mostly no more than one- or two-word markings.

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There are some early Frish names kept in Latin writings, and some runish (Futhorc) markings, but the oldest overliving writs in Old Frish are from the thirteenth hundredyear, namely rikewise- and lawwrits. They show a great deal of tungish oneliness.


 * Westeremden yew-stick (about 750-900)
 * Fon Alra Fresena Fridome (English)
 * Hunsigo MSS H1, H2: Ten Behests (English), 17 petitiones  (English)
 * Londriucht (English)
 * Thet Freske Riim (English)
 * Skeltana Riucht law writing (English)