There is lowbrow talent too, including Otto Waalkes, a Frisian buffoon.

也有一些比较肤浅的人物，比如弗里斯兰小丑Otto Waalkes。

On the tree of languages, English is west Germanic and it branches off into the Anglo Frisian group.

在语言树形图上，英语是西日耳曼语，它的分支是盎格鲁弗里斯兰语。

This can explain why pairs of closely related languages-Tajik and Persian, Icelandic and Swedish, Frisian and English-differ in grammatical complexity.

这可以解释为什么紧密相关的语言——塔吉克语和波斯语、冰岛语和瑞典语、弗里西亚语和英语——在语法复杂性上存在差异。

These broad language groups in turn divided over time into scores of new languages, from Swedish to Portuguese to Hindi to Latin to Frisian.

随着时间的推移， 这些广泛的语言群体又分裂成几十种新语言， 从瑞典语到葡萄牙语到印地语到拉丁语到弗里斯兰语。

All these peoples all spoke variations of a West Germanic tongue, similar to modern Frisian, variations that were different but probably close enough to be mutually intelligible.

所有这些人都说西日耳曼语的变体， 类似于现代弗里斯兰语， 这些变体虽然不同但可能足够接近以至于可以相互理解。

The Frisian people, from the marshes and islands of northern Holland and western Germany, also began to encroach on the British mainland from about 450 AD onwards.

来自荷兰北部和德国西部沼泽和岛屿的弗里斯兰人也从公元 450 年左右开始侵占英国大陆。

West Germanic, the ancestor of Old High German, Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Old Low Franconian and others which in turn gave rise to modern German, Dutch, Flemish, Low German, Frisian, Yiddish and, ultimately, English.

西日耳曼语是古高地日耳曼语、古撒克逊语、古弗里斯兰语、古低地弗兰肯语和其他语言的祖先，这些语言又产生了现代德语、荷兰语、佛兰芒语、低地德语、弗里斯兰语、意第绪语，最后是英语。