Accents & languages?

first national language makes difference like those is UK, speak with british accent and in US, American accent. Furthertore, regional and mother tounge makes up your accent a lot…

Sorry, as far as lingists have been able to find out, there was never ONE single ‘root language’ or common mother tongue - not least because apparently the proto-humans had already started moving around and getting separated by the time language communication developed.

Latin, by the way, is part of the larger Indo-European family of languages, where Sanskrit is the oldest known language. (It is still used as a sacred language, much as Latin was until recently.)

English is also part of that same family, the Germanic branch (which includes German, Dutch and Flemish, and the Scandinavian languages) - because its basic grammar structure is Germanic, although many of the words have come from French (Norman Invasion of 1066 And All That) as well as other sources.

Language keeps evolving. Just look at today’s slang expressions and compare them with the ones your parents and grandparents used. And when people move away from each other, the ‘new’ language doesn’t necessarily spread to everyone else, even in these days of mass communications. And, as several responses point out, there are outside influences, like French in the Creole areas of the USA, or like local languages in India and other English-speaking areas around the world.

It’s true that many people now speak or read English, but it is far from being a ‘universal’ language.

well most languages are derived from some form of latin I think? =S I forget

but way back when, when people started to migrate and settle new lands, you were no longer in touch with someone who settled some where else blah blah blah, and just over time the language adapted new things and it progressevely changed.

forming french, english, etc…

so thats why we speak different languages depending on where we live

and as for the accents its just because of the language, certain words are meant to be said in a certain way, and a language in general usually follows a pattern, like french is meant to just roll in a way, asian languges are really broken up and choppy, german sounds like you have to spit haha etc…

and well we all don’t speak the same thing because when humans explored, divided, and settled and had no form of communication and the new languges were formed, can you imagine by the time communication was developed to try and teach ALL the people to forget their mother tongue and to learn the universal languge?

that would be like right now telling you that you can’t speak english anymore and have to learn japaneese. or whatever.

but english is regarded as the “universal languge” because at least one person in an country can speak it.

I think it has to do with other languages we come in contact with. I know here in the South we have French influence and so people from Louisiana speak with a French Cajun accent. In the North I guess the Polish and others like Swedes settled and they have a different sound. I can’t even understand sometimes. In New York well there were so many cultures that settled but I think the most influential is an Italian way of speaking.

I think, no source here, that it has something to do with water boundaries. the british have their accent, because they are an island nation, as they werent in contact with the rest of europe. but then there are so many different languages in every continent, that this is kinda inconsistent, but water barriers probably play a good role. and from there, the countries influenced other “new” nations like america, Japan, australia, ect.