how did the language of speece originate and how come there are so many variations?

Question

how come there are so many accents and different languages

Answer 1

Read Genesis 11 that will tell you

Answer 2

In the very earliest days people lived by hunting and gathering. It didn't take long before small areas were picked clean of edible plants, and hunted until it was hard to find animals for food.
To get around this situation, small groups would travel many many miles to find unhunted land. These small groups grew into quite large settlements. The need to keep moving was no longer there because people were learning to grow crops and raise animals. Communication was non-existant so language from one group to the other drifted farther and farther apart.
After a very long time the speech of one group became a language not understood by other groups.
To understand how languages drift apart, imagine England English and American English. We prefer one pronunciation they another. We use a word like truck. They prefer lorry. Now imagine what the difference would be if there was no radio, no television, no visiting, no connection with each other for many hundreds of years. The difference would be great.
That almost happened when Rhineland Germans came to Pennsylvania during the very early years. There was little connection with the mother country. The languages of the two groups drifted enough that now a true German would have a very difficult time conversing with a Pa. Dutchman.

Answer 3

Enough of the facetious comments.........
It would be vastly more surprising if there was just one language that we all spoke. In earliest times human beings were not geographically mobile to the same extent that we are today, and artificial methods of communication that we take for granted today have only really existied for the past 150 years or so. Languages developed separately amongst tribes and cultural groups which would have had contact with relatively few outsiders. Language groups developed through cultural cross-fertilisation as peoples met, and of course conquered, each other. Hence the similarities between, for example, the so-called "Romance" languages: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian and their dialects/related languages.
As electronic communication via the internet expands into every corner of the world, so a common language is beginning to develop - the horribly named American English. Sad really - variety is the spice of life.

Answer 4

My concept is that life began in china, and the migration throughout the world, as land were taken, greed took over and wars began, therefore factions began to use codes that others should not know their intentions, these codes then became dialects.

Answer 5

This is how people first started to comunicate with their own tone of voices and now to speak in that tone of voice so they can pronounce the words in that language properly.

Answer 6

speece? Did I miss something at school?

Answer 7

Culture and isolation. Just look at the way "English" has fragmented.

Answer 8

Obviously not at the same time as spelling.

Answer 9

read your bible. happened at the tower of babel. God did it.....now go read why!!!