Quote Originally Posted by blitzkrieg80 View Post
we appreciate the comment. of course there are so many gifted members in non-Germanic specialties that I am likewise amazed all the time
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Viking_Warlord, care to offer any evidence other than the fantastic claims made just now with no reference, which isn't even listed anywhere in the field of study, nonetheless on the unsolicited OT links you posted from Wikipedia? you still haven't supplied a single scrap of evidence of what you're talking about other than some speculation on Dutch having retention of ancient Germanic elements... which end up being IE elements... I agree that Dutch is a very interesting language and so are its parent familial dialects, for the same reasons.

Just to be clear, you're suggesting 'Frisian' existed as the master-language of Lowland Germany / Netherlands (neglecting the standardized designation of 'West Germanic') but even so, earlier than Late Antiquity and during Classical times?

Are you referring to 'Old Franconian' or postulated term 'Ingaevonic' aka Anglo-Frisian? Again, what is your point and what is your evidence?


what do you mean by 'false once more' - care to explain this? you imply an occasion beyond the recent post.

FYI - I am hardly 'false' when I know where I got my material. do you honestly think you know what sources I used better than I? If you want to prove this wrong, give us some literary evidence that I unknowingly used information from an Old Franconian or Old Frisian manuscript... that would be helpful in making such a point.

We both know that Frankish and angl-frisian are west Germanic right?
Now,of all the languages that descend from the western Germanic dialects,Frisian is the one that has the less evolved(older than Icelandic) hence you could speak Old english to a Frisian and he would understand(it has been prooven by 'Mongrel Nation' a BBC T.V program).
Hence we concluded that this is the most reliable of all languages to study proto-Germanic,most of the names that figure in E.B are actually of Old frisian origin(wich is barely the same)....
Geddit?
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