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Why did so many languages develop in Europe?

How did languages/dialects develop as "rhotic" or "non-rhotic"?

  • And sometimes one style or the other is looked down upon? Northern European languages (including British English) are mostly non-rhotic, but Romance/Slavic/Semitic languages seem to be the opposite. Even in America different regions can't agree on this. In the South every state is different. New Orleans as a city is famously non-rhotic. African Americans seemed to have learned a non-rhotic Southern dialect at one point in time. New York is famous for being non-rhotic. California's accent is the "standard" in America against which all others are judged. I think we know which camp it falls into.

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    This is not a subject on which you can enjoy a serious debate in Yahoo!Answers. You need to be speaking to professional specialists in Linguistics. And, no, you are wrong: California's accent is NOT the "standard" in the US. General, or Standard American, English, the US equivalent of Received Pronunciation in the UK, is an educated version of the Midwestern accent.

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This is not a subject on which you can enjoy a serious debate in Yahoo!Answers. You need to be speaking to professional specialists in Linguistics. And, no, you are wrong: California's accent is NOT the "standard" in the US. General, or Standard American, English, the US equivalent of Received Pronunciation in the UK, is an educated version of the Midwestern accent.

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