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Why has the English language got different dialect in every country?
Why do languages have dialects?
Dialects exist because of a combination of several political and sociological factors. One of these is the seek for identity that pushes a group of people to share a certain variety of language. Another factor is related to human behavior like immigration and education. Look into the essence of social dialects and regional dialects and you will understand. Deep research into dialects and their history reveals why each single dialect has come to life. Some of these reasons might be shared.
For further reading see: http://www.westga.edu/~dnewton/engl/historical.html
due to the mother tongue interference
Many people have different articulatory systems
Basically, there are two accents British and American. English is spoken differently in various countries because of mother tongue influence.
Because each area was cut off from the change of the British London accent by distance or terrain.
Scots spoke Celtic as did the Irish, America has many different regional accents. Spanish and French are similar.
German is different in the North and South and Arabic is not the same in different countries.
Thanks for the invite,
Better to answer by providing an question: Why the Arabic language is spoken in different dialect in almost each country - even Arab countries? I do not think someone will provide a perfect explanation for that; but I belives dialects relate to peoples and their localities besides relating to a language.
I would like to add,"different dialects even within a country" to your question.
Actually, it comes true almost for every language including English. According to language experts every language change its dialect after a certain distance. The distance may vary from country to country and language to language, based on certain factors; density of population, literacy rate, etc.
I'll give you the example of Australia where at certain areas dialect varies so much so that it becomes hard for many to comprehend.
Why is any language spoken in dialects? :-)
Not in always, in fact, there are2 large chunks - British and US English - they are pretty understandable