Why do we have accents?
An accent is a way of pronouncing that is particular to a person, location or nation. There are two types.
The first is the accent you have when you speak a foreign language, having to make words and sounds that you aren’t comfortable with.
The second is the accent we speak our native language with, such as how the British sound speaking English in comparison to how we sound speaking it.
To confuse us more, different areas in a country can have different accents too.
Languages all have different sounds. It appears that as people moved around and started to live in isolated areas, they developed different speech patterns and accents.
As the world was developed and we went through periods of invasion and settlement, new accents mixed with old.
There are more than 2,500 spoken languages in the world today.
