Is the East Frisian Platt an independent language or is it a dialect of the Low German language?
Are there several types of East Frisian Platt?
How do the East Frisians view their language?
In this article we try to answer these questions.
Author: Onno Feldmann
Interfrisian Keyboard is now abled to tipe Oldfrisian and Sylt Frisian
Dat fan us stöönt projekt tau ‘n interfräisk kaibōrt het annerlessens ‘n ferwīden krēgen. Sünt güster het däi ap ōk ‘n olfräisk un ‘n säilsk wōrdenbauk integræært. Föör däi wōrdenliest fan ‘t säilsk Nōrdfräisk bīdankent wī us häilundal bī Tanno Hüttenrauch, däi dat nōrdfräisk wōrdenbauk friisk.org bīdrīven dājt. In däi tauken tīd plóónent wī dat no anner nōrdfräisk prōtwīsen mit wōrdenbauk d’r bī kōmen söölent. Däi ap gift nū al stöön bī dat tippen fan Bokkenhäirder Fräisk/Maursk, Dānsk, Düütsk, Engelsk, Fäirsk, Lēğlandsk, Ōstfräisk, Sóóterfräisk un Westfräisk mit ‘n wōrdenbauk.
Däi ap kann hir dóólhóólt worden:
East frisian names
In the project we are supporting for a standard East Frisian dictionary, our member Onno Feldmann now also regularly includes East Frisian first and last names. It is not about the pronunciation of the names in German, but the pronunciation in East Frisian. The old East Frisian names like Onno, Ubbo, Fokko are pronounced completely differently in East Frisian:
“That is because of abbreviations we have everywhere in East Frisia. In East Frisian, the name Ubbo is called Ueb and the Name Fokko is called Foek. I know this from my family as well as I am called Oen.” says Feldmann.
A pronounciation like this has never been documented in any way, except for Holger Weigelt, who described some of them. With this branch of our project we want to support the East Frisian language in this area and keep our names.
You can find the dictionary here: oostfraeisk.org
