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Isn't Standard German based on the Upper Saxon and Thüringian dialects anyway? I think that would mitigate a lot of the differences (e.g. the Saxons from the D
by amyjess 11y ago
Isn't Standard German based on the Upper Saxon and Thüringian dialects anyway?
I think that would mitigate a lot of the differences (e.g. the Saxons from the DDR would sound more "standard" than the Bavarians from the BRD).
- wink 11y agoSaxonian grammar seems to be pretty much 100% High German, whereas Bavarian has a lot of grammatical differences. So if you speak neither, both are probably unintelligible, but Bavarian also has different grammar to figure out.