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Not really, Dutch is a Istaveonic language and very distinct from the standard German or others High German dialects, whom falls in the Irmionic category, even if it shares some features with others Franconian and Low German languages. For example, the Low Franconian languages didn't underwent the High German consonant shift, a universal feature in any High German dialect/(language?).
Here in my city a lot of people speak a Moselle Franconian dialect called Hunsrik and, even with some difficult, they can understand standard German for the most part.
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