Re: My new project - comments appreciated

Joe wrote:

> Well, it's all part of the same Dialect continuum, really.  It's
> something like this:
>
>             Scots-English-Frisian-Low Saxon-German
>                                     /
>                                 Dutch
> Or something like that.  It's not an ancestry diagram, more a contact
> one, if you see what I mean... I could have included the whole Western
> Germanic family, but that would have been harder.
And would be more like Folkspraak minus Scandinavian.

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