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Well, ‘is’ isn’t quite the right word… but they’re all closely related languages, yes, which is why I mentioned it.
by bradrn 2y ago
Well, ‘is’ isn’t quite the right word… but they’re all closely related languages, yes, which is why I mentioned it.
- stavros 2y agoYep, I was being liberal with "is" there, but hopefully the point came across.
- jessekv 2y agoDutch is German, and English is French.
- stavros 2y agoEnglish is French and German.
- jessekv 2y agoAnd therefore, Dutch is English :D
- stavros 2y agoNo, English and Dutch are distant cousins.
- jessekv 2y agoHaha ok- but then so is German. Dutch has Low Franconian origins, and the more you learn about it, the weirder it gets. Also, it did not have the consonant shift- e.g. water (en) vs water (nl) vs wasser (de). That said, after centuries of relative stability, modern Dutch is absorbing English words as fast as it can. Who knows if it is still recognisable in 50 years.
- stavros 2y agoI don't know, I think maybe Dutch and German are more estranged siblings. English is a weird case because the German part is very German, but then the non-German part is pretty big!