- Anglo-Frisian languages
Infobox Language family
name=Anglo-Frisian
altname=Insular Germanic
region=Originally, theBritish Isles and theNorth Sea coast fromFriesland toJutland ; today worldwide
familycolor=Indo-European
fam1=Indo-European
fam2=Germanic
fam3=West Germanic
child1=Anglic
child2=Frisian"']
The Anglo-Frisian languages (sometimes Insular Germanic) are a group of
Ingvaeonic West Germanic languages consisting of Old English,Old Frisian , and their descendants. The Anglo-Frisian family tree is:*Anglo-Frisian
**Anglic group (Insular Anglo-Frisian)
***English
***Scots
***Yola (extinct)
**Frisian group (Continental Anglo-Frisian)
***West Frisian
***Saterland Frisian (East Frisian)
***North FrisianThe Anglo-Frisian languages are distinguished from other West Germanic languages partially by the
Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law ,Anglo-Frisian brightening and by thepalatalization of Proto-Germanic PIE|*k to a coronal affricate before front vowels: cf. English "cheese" and West Frisian "tsiis" to Dutch "kaas" and German "Käse", or English "church" and West Frisian "tsjerke" to Dutch "kerk" and German "Kirche". Early Anglo-Frisian formed a "Sprachbund " withOld Saxon , which is counted among theLow Saxon-Low Franconian languages.The German linguist Friedrich Maurer rejected Anglo-Frisian as a historical subdivision of the Germanic languages. Instead, he proposed North Sea Germanic or Ingvaeonic, a common ancestor of
Old Frisian , Old English andOld Saxon . This view has gained wide acceptance inhistorical linguistics .fact|date=April 2008Examples
Compare the words for the numbers one to ten in the Anglo-Frisian languages.
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