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Cairn Posted 21 years ago
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West and North Germanic languages - need some help with resources

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00For my diachronic linguistic study I'm looking for various versions of the Parable of the Sower and the Seed, The Lord's Prayer and possibly the Ten Commandments. If none of these are available, please do help me find links to lists of irregular verbs. 02br
00I'm especially interested in: Frisian, Yiddish, Afrikaans, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, Faroese (Old and Middle versions of the languages, too). 02br
00I would appreciate some links to sites containing those texts. 02br
00Finding them poses some problems to me since I don't know well any of the abovementioned and they probably are on some "Germanic" sites. 02br
00Thank you. 0-
  

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0 Hello, Cairn, welcome to English Forums! 02br 00I can't help you much here, sorry, but as far as I know only Frisian, (Africaans) and Dutch are German languages. 02br 00Have you tried googling?

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0 Hello, Cairn, welcome to English Forums! 02br
00I can't help you much here, sorry, but as far as I know only Frisian, (Africaans) and Dutch are German languages. 02br
00Have you tried googling? (I guess you have 05000 )010id6
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0 Hello Pieanne, 02br
00I've tried googling - imagine how difficult it is to find a text in a foreign language when you don't know the language. 02br
00As far as I know the family looks like this: 02br
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00West Germanic: 02br
00->Anglo-Frisian 02br
00--->English 02br
00--->Frisian 02br
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0 Aarrgghh... 02br
00I 've studied the Germanic languages: Dutch, English & German. 02br
00I agree with the West Germanic section, but I never learned those North Germanic languages were indeed Germanic. 02br
00I'm really sorry I can't be of more help, Cairn... Maybe someone else will? We have great minds on the Forum! 0-
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0 On the other hand, google for irregular English verbs 02br
00here's an answer: 05000 0230hrefhttp://www.englishpage.com/irregularverbs/irregularverbs.html
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0 Here are a few paternosters, Cairn. It's quite slow to load: 02br
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00[url="05000/"]...in thy orisons be all my sins remembered...[/url] 02br
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00MrP 0230hrefhttp://www.christusrex.org/www1/pater
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0 Hello Mr Pedantic, 02br
00oh I will find the site very helpful. 02br
00(I just can't stop studying the texts:) 02br
00Thank you. 0-
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0 Thank you again Pieanne. I know English irregular verbs, including their Old English and Middle English forms. I also know the German ones. Now I just want to study the history of languages related to them. The phonological processes I'm interested in are usually perfectly visible in such "regular" irregularities. 0-
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0 You're welcome, Cairn! You seem fascinated by your work, I wish you a lot of success. 0-
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0First of all, as I remember, Yiddish is the language of Jews who settled in Germay long time ago, just checked and confirmed, with a lot of influence from German. And it falls into Germanic languages.02br
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00Secondly, maybe this helps: 05000. I also googled and found the following pages. I'm sure you can find more: 01a
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Germanic languages ?

English - Norwegian - Swedish - Danish - German - Dutch - Flemish - Afrikaans - Icelandic
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