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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Similar with Bavarian. I know a few people who are incapable of speaking high German. The ISO and UNESCO even classify Bavarian as its own language (although that is debatable).

High German and Bavarian are actually more different than for example Danish and Norwegian and Czech and Slovak.