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Originally Posted by Struggle4Bucks
Not really parroted because there is some nuance...
How you said it, Dutch would be an offspring/offshoot/derivative from German with German as the Mother-language. Dutch is a Germanic dialect and not a German dialect. Dutch is even closer to English than it is to German.
English: Apple
Dutch: Appel
German: Apfel
Anyway it's very interesting.
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Some people are so uneducated... English is German. A modified version of it. It did not appear from nowhere. It is just a branch of German. Nothing interesting here, because it's a well-known fact. The same applies to Dutch, of course.
Educate yourself:
Why English Is a Germanic Language | Grammarly Blog