Subj : old dutch
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Kees van Eeten
Date : Sun Nov 27 2016 23:12:34

Hello Maurice!

27 Nov 16 21:24, you wrote to me:

 MK> According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_language there indeed is
 MK> an old Dutch BUT most of the writings of that time were mostly latin which
 MK> isn't all that surprising.

 MK> I did run across these interesting tidbits;

 MK> - oldest sentence has been identified as Dutch: Maltho thi afrio lito ("I
 MK> say to you, I free you, serf") used to free a serf.

 MK> - the most famous Old Dutch sentence is probably Hebban olla vogala nestas
 MK> hagunnan, hinase hic enda tu, wat unbidan we nu ("All birds have started
 MK> making nests, except me and you, what are we waiting for")

 https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oudnederlands

 I now live in one of the regions where Olddutch was not spoken, apart from
 the fact that only fish lived here. So major conversation would be something
 like blub, blub.

 MK> Too few tidbits to make a random tagline thingy out of and also is
 MK> lacking
 MK> as far as utf-8 characters are concerned.  Oh well, I tried.

 Indeed very few texts have survided from those time (500 - 1150 AD)

 Text from those times can probably only be written in runes or in latin
 script. Those who wrote it down in latinscript were also versed in latin.

 Found this as wel:

 https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingveoonse_talen

 Here the Nothsea Germanlanguages are mentioned and a connection between
 Oldfisian, Oldenglish and oldsaxon. With special ties between
 Oldfrisian and Oldenglish, but I beleive you mentioned the latter already.

 All very interesting if one is interested in languages, unfortunale I am
 not one of them.

Kees

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