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From: orville crane <manbythewater at hotmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2008.03.14 (02) [E]

In "An Introduction to Middle Dutch" by Collette M. van Kerckvoorde, the
oldest Dutch sentence is examined in Chapter 20.2, under the title: "The
oldest Dutch sentence"
                     Since written documentation of the oldest stages in the
history of the Dutch
                     language is so scarce, Kenneth Sisam's discovery of an
Old Dutch sentence in
                     1931 was of great significance. Sisam found the
sentence, which dates back
                     to the eleventh century, on the back cover of an
English manuscript in the
                     Bodleian Library in Oxford. Soon thereafter the dialect
of the sentence was
                     identified as West Flemish. The sentence is often
called the 'probatio pennae'
                     'testing of the pen', since the scribe wrote it down in
order to test his new
                     quill. The sentence is:

                     Hebban olla uogala nestas hagunnan hinase hi(i) (e)nda
thu uu(at) (u)nbida(n)
                     (uu)e nu

                     It means: 'All birds have begun their nests except for
me and you. What are
                     we still waitng for?' The sentence displays three
features that disappeared in
                     Middle Dutch:   (i)   the occurrence of full vowels in
unstressed final syllables,
                     e.g.  'hebban'  (MDu. 'hebben' to have);   (ii)   word
initial ODu.  'th'  which
                     became MDu.  'd', e.g.  'thu'  (MDu.  'du'  you):
(iii)  'u'  in closed syllables in
                     front of nasal consonants, which became MDu.  'o' , e.g.
 'hagunnan'  (MDu.
                     "begonnen" begun).
man bij het water

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From: orville crane <manbythewater at hotmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2008.03.14 (02) [E]

Beste Ron,
Vind ik ook in het boek door Orrin Robinson, "Old English and its Closest
Relatives", blz. 205.
man by die water

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