Old Frisian

Old Frisian
Frīsesk
RegionNetherlands, Germany, Southern Denmark
Era8th to 16th centuries
Futhorc
Language codes
ISO 639-3ofs
Linguist List
ofs
Glottologoldf1241

Old Frisian was a language spoken between the 13th and 16th centuries, in the area between the Weser and the Zuiderzee. It is the common ancestor of most of the Frisian languages. Today, laws and deeds written in Old Frisian remain.

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