Re: Conlang as a divider from others

Nik Taylor scripsit:

> Actually, the Amish use the so-called Pensylvania Dutch, a descendant of
> a dialect of Old High German (or was it Old Low German?), thus a cousin
> to Modern High German.  Yiddish is another good example.
Pennsylvania German ( which is called Pennsylvaanisch in the Brithenig
Universe) is a descendant of Schwabian, a H.G. dialect.

Yiddish is also High, but results from a fusion of dialect forms.

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