Frisian languages are a closely related group of
Germanic languages, spoken by about half a million members of
Frisian ethnic groups, who live on the southern fringes of the
North Sea in the
Netherlands and
Germany. Frisian languages are the most closely related living European languages to
Old English, but modern English and Frisian are mostly unintelligible to each other. It has been asserted that fishermen from
Great Yarmouth could understand fishers from
Harlingen in Friesland. There are similarities to both
Dutch, as many Frisian words are borrowed from Dutch, and Danish, as
Danish speakers are able to understand some spoken Frisian. Additional shared linguistic characteristics between the Great Yarmouth area, Friesland, and Denmark are likely to have resulted from the close trading relationship these areas maintained during the centuries-long
Hanseatic League of the
Late Middle Ages.
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