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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 2732984, member: 2844"][USER=5066]@James Conrad[/USER] , while researching something else, I came across info on the German language, and of course I thought of your 'theory'.</p><p><br /></p><p>Old High German came into being in the 8th century, which means 2 centuries after Old Dutch came into being:</p><p>"Die Geschichte der (hoch-)deutschen Sprache wird häufig in vier Abschnitte (<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprachstufe" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprachstufe" rel="nofollow">Sprachstufen</a>) unterteilt:</p><p><br /></p><ul> <li>750–1050: <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althochdeutsch" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althochdeutsch" rel="nofollow">Althochdeutsch</a></li> <li>1050–1350: <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelhochdeutsch" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelhochdeutsch" rel="nofollow">Mittelhochdeutsch</a></li> <li>1350–1650: <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%BChneuhochdeutsch" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%BChneuhochdeutsch" rel="nofollow">Frühneuhochdeutsch</a></li> <li>ab 1650: <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuhochdeutsch" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuhochdeutsch" rel="nofollow">Neuhochdeutsch"</a></li> </ul><p><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Sprache#Geschichte" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Sprache#Geschichte" rel="nofollow">https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Sprache#Geschichte</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Do you still want to maintain that the Dutch spoke German until they suddenly thought it was a good idea to invent Dutch?<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie51" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>There wasn't even a German language when the Dutch first began to speak Dutch.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 2732984, member: 2844"][USER=5066]@James Conrad[/USER] , while researching something else, I came across info on the German language, and of course I thought of your 'theory'. Old High German came into being in the 8th century, which means 2 centuries after Old Dutch came into being: "Die Geschichte der (hoch-)deutschen Sprache wird häufig in vier Abschnitte ([URL='https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprachstufe']Sprachstufen[/URL]) unterteilt: [LIST] [*]750–1050: [URL='https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althochdeutsch']Althochdeutsch[/URL] [*]1050–1350: [URL='https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelhochdeutsch']Mittelhochdeutsch[/URL] [*]1350–1650: [URL='https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%BChneuhochdeutsch']Frühneuhochdeutsch[/URL] [*]ab 1650: [URL='https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuhochdeutsch']Neuhochdeutsch"[/URL] [/LIST] [URL]https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Sprache#Geschichte[/URL] Do you still want to maintain that the Dutch spoke German until they suddenly thought it was a good idea to invent Dutch?:hilarious: There wasn't even a German language when the Dutch first began to speak Dutch.[/QUOTE]
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