Will English Dialects Become Languages?

Different languages can be mutually understood between speakers and different dialects of the same language could be completely different. According to many linguists, a dialect becomes a language when it is no longer mutually intelligible between the dialect speakers and speakers of the “original” language.

Will English become different languages?

English will be the world's lingua franca for cross-culture communications for at least the next 15 or 20 years; Mandarin and other languages will continue to expand their influence, thus English will not 'take over'; linguistic diversity is good, and the internet can help preserve it; all languages evolve over time.

Can a dialect evolve and eventually become a language?

Conclusions. Given that the dialects of isolated speaker populations may eventually evolve into different languages, our result suggests that cultural adaptation to local environment and the associated isolation of speaker populations have contributed to the emergence of the global patterns of linguistic diversity.