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Gronings-Oostfries[edit]

User:Gruna 1 made changes to some linguistic maps, which show East Frisian Low Saxon and Gronings Low Saxon as the same dialect. From a synchronic point of view it is definitely wrong. May it was once but today it has become quite different. Which time does this map show? And I am not happy with making such changes without referring to any actual linguistic publications. I would prefere to revert these changes. 62.227.33.221 19:25, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

From a synchronic point of view English has more in common with French than with Germanic. Dialect and language maps mostly show common grounds and not common innovations. From a diachronic point of view Grunnengs has much more in common with East Frisian than with the other Dutch Low Saxon dialects. --Slomox (talk) 11:00, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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