741: World Englishes Dec 18, 2016

There is an area of linguistic study that has only existed fairly recently and only with a few other languages, including Arabic, Spanish, and French: World Englishes. Most languages are spoken only relatively few people in one region, but English is spoken all over the world by as many as 1 in 7 to 1 in 4 people, depending on how one measures levels of fluency. If enough people speak a language over a large enough area, there will be regional dialects no matter what, but now English is also influenced by other languages native to different places, accents, culture, and varying education. English is increasingly global also as the internet gives people access to everyone else online, and so it accounts for between 65%-80% of the content on the web. As more individuals speak this language, more dialects and variations emerge.