Re: um

John Doa #115-288 wrote:
> 
> RE: Re: 3 line animal heads
> BY: war...@cybergal.com
> 
> >> In Dutch "Lemurs" are called "lemuren" or "maki's". Die halfapen van
> >> Madagascar die met zwaaiende armen naar de lekkere hapjes van de
> >> cameraploeg komen gerend in EO-documentaires, weetjewel :)
> >
> >ik meen ze ook uit de apenheul te kennen.
> >
> >> PS What's a platypus?? And what does it look like in ASCII?
> >> mic
> >
> >een vogelbekdier (pictures in other postings)
> >
> >
> >
> >bart
> >--
> > 
> I take it Dutch is a bit different than German?

Dutch often reminds of german in text, because of the common origin of
the languages, but when you hear it spoken, it is almost impossible to
draw connections between the languages.

Dutch is spoken in Dutchland, and the eastern half of Belgium.
German is spoken in Germany, Austria, Switzerland (a dialect),
Luxembourg (a dialect).

The original language is named germanic. Germanic parted in three
different families: North-germanic, west-germanic and east-germanic.
East-germanic developed to gothic, but died(+). North-germanic became to
west nordic (icelandic, foeroeian, norn(+) and norwegian) and east
nordic (swedish and danish).
West-germanic became english, dutch, low-german, german and frisian.

Even because the close relation, it is hard to a Dutch to learn german
compared to other languages. 
Norwegians, danes and swedes understand each other with some practice.
It is easy for norwegians to learn icelandic (which is almost unchanged
from oldnorse).


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