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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

So england and english colonies, spain and spanish colonies, portugal and potugese colonies and france and french colonies mean four sounds dominate it. I wonder how much more diversity there would be if not for colonization.

And not just for barking sounds lol but generally for language. A lot of modern words tend to be english words and we just use them universally. Ofc languages have always borrowed words and originate from many places but english is getting too universal now.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Half of English's words are borrowed from other languages anyway.