• Question: why do we have different languages? we all live on the same planet :S

    Asked by 9mcdej to Antonia, Douglas, Hugh, Matt, Tom on 18 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Antonia Hamilton

      Antonia Hamilton answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      language evolve and change like species. some words become fashionable, others fall out of use. so different groups of people in different parts of the world can end up speaking different languages.

    • Photo: Matthew Hurley

      Matthew Hurley answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      We all live on the same planet but for hundreds of years we didn’t communicate across long distances so language developed locally. THat’s why countries that are close to each other have more similar languanges to ones farther away.

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