Conversely, if nearby towns speak different dialects, their language features will be more different. Many of these dialect boundaries have long histories, such as that separating the English of ...

None of these languages, except English, is spoken by more than a few thousand people. Several, such as Ndjébbana and Mawng, are spoken by groups numbering in the hundreds.

Published: February 6, 2020 2:01pm EST Why do different countries have different languages? – Maeôra, aged 6 Humans have long been puzzled by the existence of different languages.

Politics says something different For political scientists, the difference between a language and a dialect is not based on mutual understandability, but rather politics.