The proposed Anglo-Frisian family tree is: •
Anglo-Frisian • Anglic • South Anglic • Central English • West Central English • East Central English • Southern English • North Anglic •
Fingalian (extinct) •
Yola (extinct) •
Frisian •
West Frisian •
Hindeloopen Frisian •
Schiermonnikoog Frisian • Westlauwers–Terschellings •
Terschelling Frisian •
West Lauwers Frisian • Wood Frisian •
Westereendersk • Clay Frisian • South Frisian •
Westereendersk •
East Frisian • Ems Frisian •
Saterland Frisian • Weser Frisian •
Wangerooge Frisian •
Wursten Frisian •
North Frisian • Mainland North Frisian •
Bökingharde Frisian • West Mooring • East Mooring •
Goesharde Frisian •
Karrharde Frisian •
Strand Frisian •
Halligen Frisian •
Wiedingharde Frisian • Insular North Frisian •
Eiderstedt Frisian •
Sylt North Frisian • Föhr–Amrum •
Amrum North Frisian •
Föhr North Frisian •
Heligoland Frisian Anglic languages Anglic,
Insular Germanic, or
English languages and dialects encompass
Old English and all the
linguistic varieties descended from it. These include
Middle English,
Early Modern English, and
Late Modern English;
Early Scots,
Middle Scots, and
Modern Scots; and the extinct
Fingallian and
Yola languages in
Ireland.
English-based creole languages are not generally included, as mainly only their
lexicon and not necessarily their grammar, phonology, etc. comes from
Early Modern English and
Late Modern English.
Frisian languages The Frisian languages are a group of languages spoken by about 500,000
Frisian people on the southern fringes of the
North Sea in the
Netherlands and
Germany. West Frisian, by far the most spoken of the three main branches with 875,840 total speakers, constitutes an official language in the
Dutch province of
Friesland.
North Frisian is spoken on some North Frisian Islands and parts of mainland
North Frisia in the northernmost
German district of Nordfriesland, and also in
Heligoland in the
German Bight, both part of
Schleswig-Holstein state (Heligoland is part of its mainland
district of Pinneberg). North Frisian has approximately 8,000 speakers. The
East Frisian language is spoken by only about 2,000 people; speakers are located in
Saterland in Germany. Until the 20th century, multiple dialects of East Frisian were spoken, but today only the Saterland Frisian variety of the Ems dialect survives. In contrast, West Frisian comprises three main dialects, while North Frisian includes ten distinct varieties. • West Frisian dialects: • Clay Frisian (Klaaifrysk) • South or Southwest Frisian (Súdhoeksk) • Wood Frisian (Wâldfrysk) • North Frisian dialects: • Insular dialects •
Sylt Frisian (Söl'ring) • Föhr-Amrum Frisian (Fering, Öömrang) • Heligolandic Frisian (Halunder) • Mainland dialects • Wiedingharde Frisian (Wiringhiirder) •
Bökingharde Frisian (Mooringer) •
Karrharde Frisian (Karrharder) •
Goesharde Frisian (Gooshiirder) • Northern Goesharde Frisian (incl. Hooringer Fräisch & Hoolmer Freesch) • Central Goesharde Frisian • Southern Goesharde Frisian (extinct since early 1980s) • Halligen Frisian (Halifreesk) ==Anglo-Frisian developments==