LL-L "Language varieties" 2002.06.25 (09) [E]

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From: erek gass <egass at caribline.com>
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2002.06.25 (07) [E]

I'll draw your attention to the Jutes also, and the fact that the
various "old" Low Germanic and Nordic languages were still rather close
enough to allow some (even a great deal) of mutual comprehension.  Add
to that that Frisians WERE part of the contingent who came to England
settling largely (with their Continental neighbours, the Jutes and
Angles) in the Kent and East Anglia regions of Britain, and you probably
have the answer.  Frisian and English are astonishingly conservative in
some aspects (especially consonants) of their languages, and I've always
suspected that this rather than any other relationship has kept the tow
somewhat closer in appearance and sound than some of the other theories
I've heard advanced.

I'll bet there are others who see this differently, and I'd like to see
what the rest of you have to offer.

Erek

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