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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: Dutch-like language [OT]
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2024 17:44:30 +1100
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On 3/12/2024 11:59 pm, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
> Last night in the 80-metre band I heard two 'hams' talking.  The vowel
> sounds of their voices seemed to be characteristically Dutch (an accent
> like the Groningen area) but the language was completely
> incomprehensible.  I listened for several minutes but didn't hear a
> single word I recognised
> 
> Do any of our Dutch contributors know of some dialect that is Dutch in
> sound but does not use the standard Dutch language?
> 
> [I tried to send this to Jan by e-mail but the address I found for him
> on the Web just bounced.]

As Jan said, it could have been Fries. To German's Dutch sounds like yet 
another low German dialect.

The historical reality is that Dutch was the dominant German dialect in 
northern Europe during the Dutch golden age, and high German is the 
Prussian dialect spoken at the court of Frederick the Great - he 
preferred to use French - which got enforced as the official court 
language in the countries Prussian came to rule. The other low German 
dialects still persist as local dialects.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney