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I think Danish and Dutch are much closer phonetically than Dutch is to any of the other two, so I'm not sure that overused meme applies in this case.
by simongray 3y ago
I think Danish and Dutch are much closer phonetically than Dutch is to any of the other two, so I'm not sure that overused meme applies in this case.
- Fnoord 3y agoDutch and Danish share heritage via Frysian and Saxon (English) heritage. IIRC the Frysian lived among the whole coast of North Sea from Holland till North-West Germany, and then enclaves in Denmark, too.
- ffgjgf1 3y agoDutch is a Franconian dialect though? They just didn’t go through the consonant shift like their cousins in the Rhineland. It isn’t really that closely related to Frisian or Low German and even less so to Norther Germanic.