Anglo-Frisian languages

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The Anglo-Frisian languages (also known as Ingvaeonic languages, North Sea Germanic languages or sometimes Insular Germanic) are a group of West Germanic languages consisting of Old English, Old Frisian, and their descendants. The Anglo-Frisian family tree is:
*Anglo-Frisian
**Anglic group (Insular Anglo-Frisian)
***Modern English
***Scots
***Yola
**Frisian group (Continental Anglo-Frisian)
***West Frisian
***Saterland Frisian (East Frisian)
***North Frisian

The Anglo-Frisian languages are distinguished from other West Germanic languages partially by the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law and by the palatalization of Proto-Germanic to a coronal affricate before front vowels: cf. English cheese and Frisian tsiis to Dutch kaas and German Käse, or English church and Frisian tsjerke to Dutch kerk and German Kirche. Early Anglo-Frisian formed a Sprachbund with Old Saxon, which is counted among the Low German languages.

Note that West Flemish, a dialect of Dutch spoken in the Belgian province of West-Flanders, has also got a great deal of the Ingvaenonic characteristics.