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By rigidly applying a relative chronology to the earliest sound-changes that led towards the rise of (Old) Frisian this article for the first time systematically maps the area in Holland where formerly a form of Proto-Frisian was spoken.
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The discussion helps us to see the southern contours of Frisophone territory in the early Middle Ages.
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It often annoyed me that no good survey was available of the linguistic situation along the coast of the Low Countries, especially in the later county of Holland, during the period after the Migrations. I therefore started collecting and analysing data myself. The result was a well-documented and well-structured overview, based on a relative chronology of the most salient sound-changes. With maps.
Dr Rolf H. Bremmer Jr
Universiteit Leiden
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This page is a summary of: North-Sea Germanic at the Cross-Roads, NOWELE North-Western European Language Evolution, October 2008, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/nowele.54-55.09bre.
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