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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Shou@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Didn't every language start as a dialect?

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 points 1 month 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.