Best way to learn Frisian/Fryas?

[tatehiebert]

Reading the OLB it is odd to me how simple and easy it is to read. It partly makes me suspicious that it’s authentic, but when I see the Fryas word and how the translation was derived, I notice how rich it is.

Is there a good source/website for learning Fryas to be able to understand it? I know modern Frisian isn’t really the same, but maybe that would be a good place to start?

Something that gives me hope about the OLB being real though is this. I printed a copy of it to give to my Pake, a full blooded Frisian. He read it and the last time I spoke with him he told me very sincerely (he would never lie about these things) that he was really amazed by it and it was absolutely authentic Old Frisian.

[Colin Alexander777]

That’s a good point, I was struck by that too. It’s natural ‘readability’ makes me want try to learn it’s language, and Dutch.

[Nordic]

Unless some further secret cache of ancient Frisian texts re-surfaces, Oera Linda manuscript is what we got. Thank Go... err I mean Wralda it's a Bible-alike in textual coverage of various themes, so it's quite extensive for linguistic purposes.

Any other Germanic language or old text should suffice to add to it. I'm not a native Germanic language speaker, yet even I can read portions of the manuscript by merely knowing some modern English, German, Swedish and so on. Thus, some Oera Linda inspired people have went on to study European Germanic languages (Frisian, Dutch, German, Swedish...), as it will help to read the Oera Linda manuscript as well.

I personally make the case that languages like Oera Linda book Frisian, Old Norse of the saga texts and Finnish of the folklore poetry must have been more or less the same already back in ~1800 BC, when they were used to copy information into Sumerian clay tablets, meaning many Euro languages are way older in form than was previously thought about.

[Colin Alexander777]

I agree Nordic, and that’s a fascinating case you make with the Sumerian connection- a lot of new information for me to onboard. The language & logos of the OLB would seem to be powerful enough evidence of authenticity, in and of itself. I downloaded an app today for learning beginner’s Dutch, for a start:)