Langenesis

Indo-European family

North Frisian

1550 CE – today Living

North Frisian (1550 CE – today) is a living Indo-European language. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Germanic → Proto-West-Germanic → Old Frisian → North Frisian.

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Speakers
10K (10,000)
ISO 639-3
frr

Highly fragmented dialects on the North Frisian coast and islands of Schleswig-Holstein; endangered.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE – 500 CE
  3. Proto-West-Germanic200 CE – 700 CE
  4. Old Frisianc. 800 CE – 1550 CE
  5. North Frisian1550 CE – today

Sister languages 2

Also descended from Old Frisian.

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