Template talk:drt (RFDO discussion of the Dutch Low Saxon varieties drt, gos and twd)
Wiktionary:Beer parlour/2012/March#Status_of_Low_German_varieties (discussion of the various Low German varieties; expressions of support for the merger of all Dutch varieties under one code, the merger of all German varieties under another, and the retention of Plautdietsch)
West Germanic has been, at all stages of its development, difficult to pull apart into discrete languages without leftovers. As Ernst Kausenwrote of German:
Die drei historischen Stadien — Althochdeutsch, Mittelhochdeutsch und Neuhochdeutsch — sind nur als Vereinigung von Dialekten greifbar, die verschiedenen Zweigen der obigen Klassifikation angehören.
The three historical stages — Old High German, Middle High German and New High German — are concrete only as unions of dialects which belong to different branches of the above classification scheme.
