I do not know many of the dialects in northern Germany. Is it very different from the Standard German?
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Anonymous2010-03-29 22:07
Yes.
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Anonymous2010-03-29 22:59
How different?
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Anonymous2010-03-29 23:51
Depends on where you go.
Hannover f.e. is an almost dialect-free zone.
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Anonymous2010-03-30 5:45
Are there any grammatical differences with Standard German?
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Anonymous2010-03-31 8:26
I was wandering the same thing. Also which area has the closest dialect to Standard German?
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Anonymous2010-03-31 19:41
People want to know about Low German because London's high class English sociolect was partly influenced from Low German by King George of Hanover.
Please. More info on Low German, please.
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Anonymous2010-03-31 20:51
low german is high german slowly inclinating towards dutch the more you advance to the northwest
dutch language just being the ultimate version of low german
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Anonymous2010-04-01 15:18
Dutch and Low German are under different subgroups of Western Germanic language family. Low German did give some influence to the phonology and vocabularies of Standard German.
How? Most likely that the Prussian Empire was a big trading partner with Bavaria, Switzerland, and Austria that High German dialects contributed the standardization of German to northern Germany.