Why do we all speak different languages?
922425
you have two ways of looking at this ...\nbiblically and non biblically , so i will give you both\n\nbiblically it is said that God gave us different languages at the towers of Babel\n\nnon biblically .... when the world spilt millions of years ago , we all went different ways and learned to speak differently in the small communities we belonged to
804321
Because this is a diverse country which I think is one of the charms of living in the United States. Our country doesn't have an official language so technically, they can speak whatever they want. It just so happens most of the country speaks English. \n\nAnd most employees can speak at least limited English, although it may be harder to understand. Rather than getting upset about it, take it as an opportunity to help their conversational skills.
776567
All languages change over time.  Just try reading Shakespear or the King James Bible to get a taste of how English has changed over the last few hundred years.  New languages form when two groups of people who were in communication become isolated from each other.  The language changes, but in different ways and soon becomes two distinct dialects.\n\nToday, with international communication via the Internet bringing people into communication with each other (lack of isolation) I think we will see the opposite.  Languages that were different will come closer together again.  Words for new things, like the telephone and the computer, become common in all languages.
40468
I'm sure they did when they first got here, but over time people didn't teach languages other than English to their children.  This often happens as a natural process when more than one language is available in the environment; people always want to learn the language of power, and ignore any others.  It's sad but true.  That's why I hope that people who read my answer will choose to continue speaking other languages, if they know them.  People are often worried about messing up their kids, but it doesn't mess them up.
455188
My Fiance and I have a very interesting relationship and how we carry our languages in our relationship as well.. I love him and he loves me .. We always teach eachouther many different languages. It makes us soo special when we know many different languages and languages of love. \n\nAnyway, My mother tongue is English .. I know Malay and Malay sign language- two internships in Malaysia, French- Touring the city twice, Malayalam and Hindi from my freinds in the Indian communiuties, Arabic from my Fiance, American Sign language- Deaf/DeafBlind students  at the public schools where i work at (interesting and FUN JOB for me) and Spanish-my family\n\nMy Fiance is the mother tougue of Arabic. of course he speaks Arabic(Egyptian), French-Touring the city with me once,Turkish-friends, learns sign language from me for fun, and English as well. \n\nWe have the most interesting of how we carry our language of love. ( maybe its not good idea to post it becz its not according ur question as u asked for. )
623732
Communicating with others outside of your own culture/community.\n\nEasier time traveling through the world.\n\nUnderstanding the reason why our language is the way it is is rooting in understanding other languages also.\n\nWages are higher when you know another language.\n\n\nThese are just a few!
1029283
I like to tell people that because I know Spanish as well as English, my world is twice as big. That means I can talk to almost anyone I meet in the Southwest United States, where so many speak both Spanish and English, instead of being limited to just English. Now if only I knew French, I could go to Canada and expand my world by another big percentage. Same with Russian or German or Portuguese or Chinese.
943311
Because languages keep evolving, and so does the way people express themselves. I think our language/way we talk pretty much reflects our background/social status, etc. \nI think people try and find equivalent words to some already existing because the original one might feel too foreign/inappropriate to them. Teenagers in particular feel the need to make up a whole new vocabulary so that they're not related in any way to their parents/grandparents, and it makes them feel part of a group, they have something amongst them that adults can't be a part of.\nWe've all done when we were younger and it's going to keep happening, and that's the beauty of languaes. That's wny learning languages is so interesting, there is no one right answer, there are choices and you are truly fluent when you know when and where to use one or the other.
164022
Groups of people who share a common history generally share the same language. This is usually not because someone forced them to learn it, but because it has been handed down to them. \n\nNobody knows when the first language was formed, and where. Almost all european languages, and those of India, share a common source called Indo-European. As the people who spoke those languages spread out across the european continent, parts of Asia and Africa, they took their language with them.\n\nVarying local conditions, contact with speakers of other languages, and other factors such as isolation and trade, over time, leads these languages to diverge into the numerous amounts of languages we have today.\n\nThe short answer - very rarely did anyone "get a whole bunch of people" to adopt the same language. Rather, the language is handed down from generation to generation, and evolved much as languages do today among the youth.
91986
I learned there are about 6000 human languages.\nNot counted: dead languages.\nThe number of dialects is hard to count, because the differences are too vague.When you guess five in each language then you find 30 thousend.
805502
Yes there is possibly more English speaking then any other language, yet I doubt it would be spoken all over the world, because nationalities want to keep tradition and want to speak in their own language and not a strange forgien one.
1110651
The first spoken human language was about 100,000 years ago in Africa.  This language split apart into different dialects and eventually different languages.  Over time these languages themselves split apart until we have all of the modern languages of today's world.  In a sense, we ALL still speak the original language.
237098
Because grammar is part of the language people need to learn. If we don't use correct grammar, everyone would be talking all funny.
820686
The majority of native English speakers cannot speak any language but their own........ I let that be their own problem, not mine.\n\nI'm Dutch and I'm happy that I learned to speak more than one language.
1079031
Actually, it's probably because whatever language or locale, the people you're talking to are people, and people are slow. You probably have to sit through a bunch of spoken information, but you could probably read or skim it faster. You probably have to give a lot of information, and people misunderstand things you say, need to ask for spellings and that sort of thing. It really doesn't matter where the people are, or the languages involved, speech is just a slower way of doing things.
919434
not so very long ago huge numbers of people in southern and central europe spoke latin.\n\nbut as the people in spain began to get more interested in talking to each other than in talking to italians, their language slowly evolved from latin to spanish.\n\nthe same thing happened in france, italy, romania.\n\nit is impossible to preserve a language against the wish of its speakers: people use a language to communicate with the people they want to talk to.\n\nit is just as impossible to stop new languages from evolving. a thousand years ago there was no recognisable english language, but as the need for one developed it appeared.\n\nthere are already dialects of english which are nearly unintelligible to speakers of the standard dialect (jamaicans and nigerians have forms of english which are on the verge of becoming separate languages).\n\nyou cannot tell a language what to do:- it tells you.
766864
Because the European Council promotes multilingualism and cross-cultural dialogue. They have this policy, and spend tons of euros on this matter. There are many projects especially made for this aim. The aim of EU is to make every European know at least two languages.