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      2 months ago

      A few hundred years ago, their language was a German dialect!

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          Possibly, but the distinction here is that the differentiation of Dutch and German didn’t happen that long ago, and this would be a lot more obvious if the German dialects that are closest to Dutch weren’t nearly dead.