I’m not sure there are any languages with speakers separated by a barrier (either political or natural) that don’t have accents/dialects altered due to geography.
Definitely, it’s just interesting to see such a stark divide put in place so recently (on a linguistic timescale), few better examples to see how a language diverges in real time
I’m not sure there are any languages with speakers separated by a barrier (either political or natural) that don’t have accents/dialects altered due to geography.
Definitely, it’s just interesting to see such a stark divide put in place so recently (on a linguistic timescale), few better examples to see how a language diverges in real time
Well, now I have questions about East and West Germany…
Don’t they have different accents? I’m pretty sure they did even before the war, no? Prussia and Bavaria had different accents, for example.