Old English question

[kaji_sensei]

If I wanted to have someone record audio samples of Old English words and texts, which Germanic language background do you think would allow to the reader to be able to read it most naturally and/or most accurately? Offhand I'm guessing perhaps Icelandic (due to orthography), followed by German?

Comments

[suangelita]

Not German.

Icelandic would be good, Danish could also work...

Although it's mostly linguistically unrelated, in terms of inflection one of the Gaelic, eg. Welsh, actually sounds pretty close.

[kaji_sensei]

Good to know; I generally read it with something of a German accent in my head, even though English is technically a northern Germanic language like the Scandinavian ones.

The Welsh bit actually makes some degree of sense, as I imagine the languages probably interacted a fair bit due to their geographic proximity (now, under what circumstances is a different matter, of course! hehehe...).

[ekaterinn]

I'm not sure, but I've been told that I should have no trouble learning Old English, because I know Old Icelandic...

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[kaji_sensei]

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