East Frisian language and alphabet

Inside Dutch Culture on Instagram: "Eddie Izzard once visited Friesland in the TV show Mongrel Nation, where he tried speaking Old English. The idea was to show how closely related Old English is to Frisian, since both trace back to the same roots. In fact, English in its earliest form over a thousand years ago is thought to have developed from the same Germanic language base as Frisian and Dutch. English belongs to the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family. Within that branch, Ol

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