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Silver Ninja 
Sitting down on the beanbag chair so he was more at their level now. "A language can have many different aspects to it, depending on where it's being spoken. Accents can change, words can be said differently. Location, atmosphere, the people, are all different ways that a language can change within itself."
"Let's move to Mermish, what do you think are some reasons or ways that the Mermish language might differ in different parts of the world?"
Everyone spoke a lot of stuff huh? West stayed quiet though, even though he was interested. He was thinking about how his dad was teaching his sister Gobbledegook, and wondered what Aspen would make of Mermish.
He stuck his hand up.
"Well for starters different merpeople look different, and their mouths and vocal chords and all are a bit physically different too, so the way they actually make sounds differs, that means it makes sense that they'd choose different sounds to form words, because the equipment they use to make the sounds is different. Like different lengths of hard and soft palate makes the palatal and velar sounds come out different, and different lips and teeth make the bilabial and labio-dental sounds come out different." Y'know, cos the ones in their lake had those sharp teeth and didn't look nearly as human as sirens for instance.
"But aside from physical reasons," Cos they existed,
"Like I think maybe things like the kind of water they live in might make a difference too. It sounds different under water right? Mermish? So, salt or fresh, and howww much salt, and how dense the water is, and what kind of currents there are and how that amplifies or attenuates how the sound actually carries, could make a difference too."