LL-L "Language contacts" 2003.09.12 (09) [E]

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A=Afrikaans Ap=Appalachian B=Brabantish D=Dutch E=English F=Frisian
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From: Dan Ryan-Prohaska <danie at ryan-prohaska.com>
Subject: LL-L "Language contacts" 2003.09.10 (02) [E]

<Dât as ai lacht un snââk tjüsch.>

I forgot to mention that the North Frisian negative article is also
derived from earlier Danish forms. Sölring (Sylt/Sild Frisian) has <ek>
which is phonologically still close to the original Old Norse <ekki>. In
other North Frisian varieties this developed from through something I
assume to be *<ege> or *<eje> to, i.e. Mooring Frasch <ai>.

Dan

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From: jannie.lawn <jannie.lawn at ntlworld.com>
Subject: LL-L "Language contacts" 2003.09.11 (07) [E]

Hai All,

Terrence Connor wrote: I have recognised many more similarities between the
nordic languages and frisian than dutch, german and afrikaans.

Well, when I was first in the UK (doing a course at the Summer Institute of
Linguistics), one of the girls I shared a room with was Swedish.  If there
was a word we didn't know in English, we'd say it in our own language, and
invariably we would know what the other person meant.  Same with written
Norwegian, which I didn't find hard to decipher.  I have always found that
Scandinavian languages have a lot of words that are quite similar to Dutch,
especially when considering some simple rules.  E.g. in some/all of those
languages what would be a 'w' in Dutch would be a 'v' over there.  Like on
the Danish motorways, when there would be an exit to So-and-So Vest (west).

Groeten, Jannie Lawn-Zijlstra

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