Everything without a category.
Since today there is the new East Frisian children’s book “D’r was insent ‘n oel wīfminsk”. The book is a translation of the West Frisian children’s book “Der wier ris in âld wyfke” by Nienke von Hichtum (West Frisian: Nynke fan Hichtum).
YouTube: https://youtu.be/zuPjgn4JoPA
The book can be downloaded as a free PDF here:
Since last week, the standard East Frisian dictionary that we support has a new style. It is now possible to use it more easily on tablets and smartphones. So oostfraeisk.org is now also a website for on the go.
desktop-version:
tablet-version:
smartphone-version:
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
