So I understand that people from different countries will speak English differently. But how does it work with north / south of a country? Or even districts – like Brooklyn accent?
In my country we don’t have accents. Everyone speaks the same. How come in English people from Yorkshire speak different than people from London?
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It’s essentially the concept of biological evolution, but applied to language and at a smaller scale.
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1. Isolation: In evolution, this is separating populations either physically or through some other method that allows the populations to grow independently. Regional differences in language are geographically separated because the populations of people are geographically separated.
2. Time: Small changes over time add up to big changes. Now that the populations are separated, they will start changing slowly over time, but separately from the other populations. After a while, the differences may be very large.
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