Comment on Have there been any major changes noticed in countries that have recently split?
Ziggurat@jlai.lu 2 weeks agoformer East Germans spoke a noticeably different dialect to West Germans
With my limited German knowledge, They are pretty liberal regarding local dialect. People do not speak the same language in Cologne, Stuttgart, or Munich, and at least as a foreign-speaker, it’s not because you understand the people in Stuttgart that you understand the one in Kȯln. Let alone Switzerland. So I am not surprised that German spoken in east-germany sounds different.