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

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Didn’t every language start as a 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.

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