• rumschlumpel
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    1 month 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.