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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Didn't every language start as a dialect?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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.