Upgant Frisian

{{Short description|Extinct East Frisian dialect of Germany}}{{Infobox language

| name = Upgant Frisian

| familycolor = indo-european

| fam2 = Germanic

| fam3 = West Germanic

| fam4 = North Sea Germanic

| fam5 = Anglo-Frisian

| fam6 = Frisian

| fam7 = East Frisian

| fam8 = Ems

| glotto = none

| iso3 = none

| extinct = mid-17th century

| states = Germany

| region = Upgant-Schott, Lower Saxony

}}

Upgant Frisian is an extinct {{ill|Ems Frisian|nl|Eemsfries|lt=Ems}} dialect of East Frisian.{{Cite book |last=Seeger |first=William Warner |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eZDTAAAAMAAJ |title=The East Frisian Dialect in the Low German Works of Moritz Jahn |date=1970 |publisher=University of Wisconsin--Madison |language=en}} It was the dialect spoken around the area of Upgant-Schott. The only text preserved in the dialect is a wedding poem by Imel Agena.{{Cite book |last=Markey |first=Thomas L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nHfrA_Ss7VYC&pg=PA251 |title=Frisian |date=1981 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-90-279-3128-3 |language=en}}

Sample text

Below is a comparison of the first five sections of the wedding poem.

class="wikitable"

!Upgant Frisian

!Saterlandic Frisian

!German

!English

Breydloffts gedicht
to eren anda weelbehagen dio erentesten, monnhatten anda
toernemen Eggerick Ulricken, breydgom, anda diw eer- anda
dugentrijcke junffer Tialda Hayunga, breyd, Ulben
Hayungas, drusta to Nodds, aeinige dochter.

|{{lang|stq|Wärskupsriemsel,
tou Ere un Wäilbihoagjen fon dän erenfääste, monhaftige un
foarnieme Eggerick Ulricken, Brüdigam, un de eer- un
dugedrieke Juffer Tialda Hayunga, Bräid, Ulben Hayungas,
Druste tou Nürden oankelde/eempelde Dochter.}}

|{{lang|de|Hochzeitsgedicht,
zu Ehren und Wohlbehagen des ehrenfesten, mannhaften, und
vornehmen Eggerick Ulcken, Bräutigam, und der ehr- und
tugendreichen Jungfrau Tialda Hayunga, Braut, Ulben Hayungas,
Drosten zu Norden einzige Tochter}}

|Wedding poem,

in honor and well-being of the honorable, manly, and

noble Eggerick Ulricken, groom, and the honorable and

virtuous maiden Tialda Hayunga, bride, northern reeve Ulben Hayunga's only daughter

References

{{Frisian languages}}{{Germanic languages}}

Category:Extinct languages of Europe

Category:East Frisian language