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Why does Dutch look like what Americans think German sounds like?
There’s only two things I hate in this world: people who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.
Calm down my cocaine
This person has culture
because Americans can’t tell the difference between the two languages
wait German and Dutch are different languages?? I thought it was like how “Spanish” and “Español” are the same just translated into that language…
Germans speak deutsch, whereas the Dutch speak Nederlands. The German language is just called German in English, and the Dutch language is just called Dutch.
Well I speak Flemish, which is…Nederlands.
Where does Frisian fit into this map of weirdness?
No expert myself but what I know is that’s the weird and mysterious one.
The rest is just confusing for those not familiar.I was mostly making a joke, part of the reason Frisian is so weird is because it’s rather ancient. Its an ancestor language of Dutch and a cousin language of English, hell my dialect is so gutteral that Frisian is more intelligible than some rural British dialects.
They are all Germanic languages, so related.
Still there’s some elements in it they can’t explain.
I hear it’s the same with Hungarian, that for some unknown reason has some Finnish elements in it apparently.If memory serves right the Finnic language used to expand as far as Perm so it’s possible that when the Hungarians were still nomadic they were brushing up against the Finnic groups and picked up some words. As for Frisian as I said they are ancient as in they were doing Viking raids against Rome, they have interacted with damned near every Germanic language, a couple Celtic languages, and Latin where they picked up weird words is anyone’s guess and that’s assuming that these aren’t archaic words held on from some even more ancient source.
You probably already worked it out from that other comment, but we Germans call our language “Deutsch” which yes, is a distinct language from “Dutch”.
