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I don't know if archaic, but they are somewhat close, and the Germanic languages too, except for English. And the Romance languages.All Slavic languages are pretty archaic, and, therefore, very close to each other. Actually, Russian (including Ukrainian and Belorussian), Polish, Bulgarian, Serbian, Slovak, Czech languages more close to each other than, say, different German dialects.
Dutch is actually like a dialect of German and in large part understandable. Swiss German sounds like a different language, but it's probably still understandable to a degree.
Just English turned out that it's not mutually understandable much with any other language.