stq vs. frs

[John Cowan]

Frank Ellermann scripsit:

> That doesn't fit for (frs) alternate names
> | Ostfriesisch, Saterlandic Frisian, Seeltersk Frisian

I agree.  The latter two are bogus.

What we have here, I think, is that FRS was used in the 14th Edition 
indiscriminately for Saterfrisian and Ostfriesisch Low German, and the
details haven't been completely sorted out yet.

> Looking into a document it should be easy to distinguish it, e.g.,
> I won't grok "stq", but get the drift of any written "nds".

Take a look at the stq Wikipedia, then.  It looks Frisian-ish to me.

> It would be strange to deviate from the Frisian fr? scheme for
> "s" in frs, the set fri, frr, frs, fry belongs together.  

I agree, but we are dealing with historical accident here.

> The "East Frisian" nds dialect is a dialect.   

Or not.  It doesn't have "an armey un a flot", that's for sure.

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