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Is Northern Germany originally dutch or german?
Native people of Northern Germany spoke Low German language which is similar or almost same as some dutch dialects.
And completely different to high german (modern standard german), which came from South Germany.
Dutch speaking people can easily understand low german, when most of southern germans don't.
Seems like Low German (original northern germans) were brainwashed by pan-germanian bullshit.
... Dutch and Low german are the same language (with different dialects). I'm afraid that the "Low German" concept is a pure creation of the prussian power to design the dutch of Northern Germany, in the obviously aim to integrate them in their territory. The elites of Northern Germany have early been germanized by Reformation (see Berlin wille be quick a german language island in the middle of a "dutch sea"), but the low classes continued to speek dutch dialects until the prussian centralization.
So, in fact, northern german are not "low german", but dutch of germany.
For the english, from the most of the studies, they are closer to frisian dialects, but they have been so "francized" in the middle-age that it is a particular case.
Low German (plautdietsch)
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Originally Posted by Chichic
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