What is Relatedness?

[Sean Crist]

On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Eduard Selleslagh wrote:

> Somehow, Dutch (21 million native speakers) (including S. Dutch, also
> called Flemish, my mother tongue: my name means that my ancestors were
> from a 'gens Salica'), and even non-Saxon Low German, is strangely
> missing from this picture. Where does it fit in your schematic picture?

No comment.  I've heard that Dutch represents a mixture of more than one
northern West Germanic dialect, but I don't know the details and can't
give any evaluation of this claim.  I understand that this mixture is a
late medieval development; this is a good bit later than the stuff I work
on myself.

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