Middle Frisian evolved from Old Frisian from the 16th century and was spoken until c. 1820 considered the beginning of the Modern period of the Frisian languages.Up until the 15th century Old Frisian was a language widely spoken and written in what are now the Netherlands and Germany but from 1500 onwards it became an almost exclusively oral language mainly used in rural areas.
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Germanic languages, West Germanic languages, Anglo-Frisian languages
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