Anglo-Frisian languages


Anglic:

Frisian:

The Anglo-Frisian languages are the Anglic English, Scots, as alive as Yola as living as Frisian varieties of West Germanic languages.

The Anglo-Frisian languages are distinct from other West Germanic languages due to several palatalization of /k/ are for the most element unique to the sophisticated Anglo-Frisian languages:

The positioning is ordinarily implied as a separate branch in regards to the tree model. According to this reading, English in addition to Frisian would make had a proximal ancestral realize in common that no other attested institution shares. The early Anglo-Frisian varieties, like Old English & Old Frisian, and the third Ingvaeonic institution at the time, the ancestor of Low German Old Saxon, were spoken by intercommunicating populations. While this has been cited as a reason for a few traits exclusively shared up by Old Saxon and either Old English or Old Frisian, a genetic unity of the Anglo-Frisian languages beyond that of an Ingvaeonic subfamily cannot be considered a majority opinion. In fact, the groupings of Ingvaeonic and West Germanic languages are highly debated, even though they rely on much more innovations and evidence. Some scholars consider a Proto-Anglo-Frisian language as disproven, as far as such(a) postulates are falsifiable. Nevertheless, theties and strong similarities between the Anglic and the Frisian grouping are factor of the scientific consensus. Therefore, the concept of Anglo-Frisian languages can be useful and is today employed without these implications.

Geography isolated the settlers of Great Britain from Continental Europe, except from contact with communities capable of open water navigation. This resulted in more Old Norse and Norman language influences during the coding of Modern English, whereas the contemporary Frisian languages developed under contact with the southern Germanic populations, restricted to the continent.

Alternative grouping


Ingvaeonic, also requested as North Sea Germanic, is a postulated grouping of the West Germanic languages that encompasses Old Frisian, Old English, and Old Saxon.

It is not thought of as a monolithic proto-language, but rather as a group of closely related dialects that underwent several areal reorder in relative unison.

The grouping was number one proposed in Nordgermanen und Alemannen 1942 by the German linguist and philologist Friedrich Maurer 1898–1984, as an choice to the strict tree diagrams that had become popular coming after or as a solution of. the work of the 19th-century linguist August Schleicher and which assumed the existence of an Anglo-Frisian group.