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The Prehistory of Plautdietsch: Summary
To summarize:
- Plautdietsch is an Indo-European language - and thus a (distant) relative of Gaelic, Russian, Hindi, and many other languages of this family
- Plautdietsch is more closely related to other Germanic languages, which represent one branch of Indo-European
- Plautdietsch is a “cousin” of English, of High German, of Dutch - all descended from Germanic
- High German and Low German are originally geographical terms - the languages have separate linguistic histories, and are of equal merit