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0 pointsneilkk2y ago0 comments

I don't think you've established any factual challenge to either of my statements:

> But the only real connection between 'Germanic tribes' and the modern state of Germany is that people from the latter believe the former to be their forefathers. They are not genetically closer to them than other Europeans, nor do they speak the same language or call themselves the same word or have the same lifestyle or inhabit the same places.

> Modern German is no closer to the language of a randomly chosen 'Germanic Tribe' than English, Prussian, Danish, Yiddish, Swedish, Czech, etc

The fact that there is some connection between modern German and Old High German and some connection between Old High German and the languages of the Germanic tribes does not contradict either.

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Manuel_D2y ago

You stated that old Germany wasn't spoken in the ancient world, when the link I posted explicitly said it was. You also wrote that "the only real connection between 'Germanic tribes' and the modern state of Germany is that people from the latter believe the former to be their forefathers", which is also not true. The languages are indeed linguistically descended from old Germany.

English is also less closely related to old German on account of the Norman french influence.

The Czech language is Slavic [1], it's substantially different than German. It's more similar to Polish or Russian.

Swedish and Danish are both North Germanic [2] rather than West Germanic [3] languages. Related to, but distinct from the West Germanic that would evolve into contemporary German.

Yes, there is a lot factually wrong with your posts.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_language

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Germanic_languages

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germanic_languages

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