Because, well, Dutch is kind of a glorified German dialect ;) Just kidding, but German and Dutch share a close, common "ancestor" language, closer than any oth

Because, well, Dutch is kind of a glorified German dialect ;) Just kidding, but German and Dutch share a close, common "ancestor" language, closer than any other Germanic languages. I used to have a professor at Uni who would always repeat, that a language is a dialect with an army, which kind of hits the spot.