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Language of a community is usually united yet including in itself the diversity feature The differences can be witnessed from the way vocabulary is employed grammar is used and words are pronounced In 2017 it is estimated that there are more than 7 000 living languages in the world and along with that number above ten thousands of dialects are already being spoken Simons Fennig 2017 In this essay the question of how language dialect alization happens will be answered Furthermore this essay also digs deep to see if regional dialects have positive or negative impact on one's national standard language skills What is dialect According to the Oxford Dictionary dialect is explained as A particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group n d Strictly speaking the term dialect refers to differences between kinds of language which are differences of lexis vocabulary grammar structure and phonology pronunciation or accent Petyt 1980 Variations in English and For example in South America when people want to buy a carbonated drink they would use the generic term coke while people from the North and Northwest would order a pop interestingly in California and the Northeast area people would prefer the term soda Dialects are the various different forms of the same language In other words a language is a group of dialects The English language itself has over one hundred variants across the world such as Yorkshire Bermudian English or Maori English which can often be difficult to interpret by speakers of other English dialects
