Why do people have different dialects, according to where they come from? Is it something in the air??!!?

Answer 1

A dialect is loosely defined as a speech pattern typical of a certain regional location, race, or social group that exhibits itself through unique word choice, pronunciation, and/or grammatical usage.

I studied this at university, (the study of it is called Dialectology). Dialectology studies variations in language based primarily on geographic distribution (as opposed to variations based on social factors, which are studied in sociolinguistics, or variations based on time, which are studied in historical linguistics) and the features associated with it.

DIALECT is NOT synonymous with accent. Accent is only a part of dialectal variation. Non-linguists often think accents define a dialect (or that accents alone identify people as non-native or foreign language speakers). An accent refers to phonological variation, i.e. variation in pronunciation Thus, if we talk about a Southern Accent, we're talking about a generalised property of English pronunciation in the South of England. But, Southern dialects have more than particular phonological properties. Accent is thus about pronunciation, while dialect is a broader term encompassing syntactic, morphological, and semantic properties.

The main reasons for dialects and therefore variation in the language are, borrowings from other areas, immigration (bringing in new words to the area) and the influence of the media on language.

Dialects have been around for a long long time, if ur interested read this article and it will explain it all in a lot more detail.

http://cis.paisley.ac.uk/livi-ci0/evoldialects-livingstone.pdf

Answer 2

As humans spread, diffent groups become somewhat isolated from other groups. Over the years, each group develops its own slang and its own terms for new things, and their own inflections. After enough time, if you compare two groups they talk very differently - different accent, different words for things, etc. Look at the difference between British and American English, for example. There is quite a difference in specific words and accents, though each group can still understand the other (usually!). Over a long, long time the way people talk diverges so much and becomes so unique, perhaps with different grammar rules in addition to different words and accents, that we have a different language altogether. See French, Itailian and Spanish - all similar in origin (Latin) but at this point, after many thousands of years, each is a fully different language.

Answer 3

I think you'll find that many dialects are relics of times of relative geographic isolation. Travel and communication were harder and much less frequent at one time, allowing the evolution of dialects within isolated populations. Now it is the exposure to those dialects from one's parents or guardians who speak that way or the immersion in the local culture that program them into an individual.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

It has a lot to do with various invaders or movement of peoples long ago, for instance in Yorkshire, where I come from, there is a pronounced Viking influence, and our vowels are pronounced flat.
the best example is 'u' which said 'uh' whereas further south 'u' is
said 'ah'.

Answer 6

it isn't just humans who have accents.

If one takes a group of sparrows, for example, to France, then the chances of the French birds attacking the visitors is high ...once the visitors begin to chatter / sing.

Quite Why this 'accent' thing is, we don't know.

Sash.

Answer 7

I'm broad Somerset, & proud of it!
I speak like this as most of the people around me speak the same!

Answer 8

Ha ha, my husband is from west Yorkshire and i'm from middlesbrough and we are always arguing over silly words. "it's a cake" "no it's a bread bun" that kinda thing.

Answer 9

Well I'm from Scotland so it could be something in the water, that's why we make such good whiskey.

Answer 10

No it's something in the voice.