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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;James Conrad, post: 2730246, member: 5066&quot;]Close Enough!</p><p>Particularly in the 18th century, I mean, you got Huguenots living in France speaking &quot;palatine&quot; German (whatever the hell that is), all these weird dialects in Europe, it&#039;s little wonder they don&#039;t get along!</p><p><br /></p><p>A quick search brought this up</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.quora.com/profile/Daniel-Gaidys" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.quora.com/profile/Daniel-Gaidys" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-thumb-510621328-200-uywovafshbqtelptesanxsbdxuzjdayc.jpeg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><a href="https://www.quora.com/profile/Daniel-Gaidys" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.quora.com/profile/Daniel-Gaidys" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></p><p><a href="https://www.quora.com/profile/Daniel-Gaidys" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.quora.com/profile/Daniel-Gaidys" rel="nofollow">Daniel Gaidys</a></p><p>, knows German</p><p><a href="https://www.quora.com/Do-Dutch-people-understand-German/answer/Daniel-Gaidys" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.quora.com/Do-Dutch-people-understand-German/answer/Daniel-Gaidys" rel="nofollow">Answered April 8</a> · Upvoted by</p><p><a href="https://www.quora.com/profile/Clemens-Hoste" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.quora.com/profile/Clemens-Hoste" rel="nofollow">Clemens Hoste</a></p><p>, lives in The Netherlands (1998-present) and</p><p><a href="https://www.quora.com/profile/Remi-Whiteside" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.quora.com/profile/Remi-Whiteside" rel="nofollow">Remi Whiteside</a></p><p>, I can order Döner Kebaps for days...</p><p><br /></p><p>Until the 17th or 18th century, the language in the Netherlands was called nederduits, “low german”, becaus it was/is a variant of low german (spoken in the low/flat lands in the north, cf. Netherlands (low countries)). But of course dutch became a language, with a written standard, while low german in Germany had it (even if not standardized) but lost it.</p><p><br /></p><p>English: The water is cold.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dutch: Het water is koud.</p><p><br /></p><p>Low german: Dat water is kold.</p><p><br /></p><p>High german: Das wasser is kalt.</p><p><br /></p><p>or:</p><p><br /></p><p>English: The door is open.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dutch: De deur is open.</p><p><br /></p><p>Low german: De dör is open.</p><p><br /></p><p>High german: Die tür ist offen.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, often black sheep among the germanic languages isnt english, its german…</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway in the south of the Netherlands the dialects are already tending to high german, or not far from the Cologne dialect, which is a high german dialect with low german elements.</p><p><br /></p><p>CASE CLOSED![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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