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Sorry I refuse to speak German unless I am very high
Would Bavarian be classified as “low German”? IIRC, the “low” refers to it coming from lowland regions, of which Bavaria is not one.
If you jumble a sensible diagram it’s gonna look weird, I guess
I guess the point is that the modern groupings we apply are inherently jumbled. Here’s a cleaner diagram,
but the containers still can’t be drawn in a neat way:
Moin, Plattdüütsch is nich dat sülbige as Düütsch.
They are different languages even though they share some vocabulary due to their historical and geographical proximity. But until a few years ago it was usual for kids in rural Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony to grow up with Plattdüütsch as their mother tounge and only learn (High) German in school. I’m not sure if this is still the case as the number of monolingual Low German speakers has declined due to higher mobility in society and information.
Just because it’s spoken in Germany it’s not the same as German. You could get the same weird diagram by grouping French and English together as “Canadian”.
Similar with Bavarian. I know a few people who are incapable of speaking high German. The ISO and UNESCO even classify Bavarian as its own language (although that is debatable).
High German and Bavarian are actually more different than for example Danish and Norwegian and Czech and Slovak.
A language is a dialect with a fleet and an army.
Albert Einstein
(I know he didn’t say it but it’s already attributed to many people so why not him)
