• @Shou
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    12 months ago

    Didn’t every language start as a dialect?

    • @[email protected]
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      12 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.