GirlsILikeThem
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The anime doesn't count, as it is quite possible they made it seem like people in Unova speak the same language for convenience's sake. Ash doesn't have the time or the patience to learn a new language.
However, it seems more likely that people in Unova MUST speak a different language than the people in the other four known regions. Unova is too far away for them to have the same language unless they were discovered by the ancestors of people from the known four regions and settled there. But even if this were the case, the language in Unova still would have changed quite a bit. For instance, they would have certain slang terms and dialects unique to Unova.
And speaking of dialects, it is highly doubtful that someone living in Fortree City in Hoeen speaks the same dialect as someone from Sunyshore City in Sinnoh. The people of Fortree likely have a very rural dialect. The dialogue that is shown on the games is put in the standard dialect of whatever language you are playing the game in, but I think this dialogue should be looked on more as cleaned-up dialogue than what they are actually saying.
It's just that it is not possible for everyone in the entire world to speak one language, and one dialect of that language. Sure there's scientific jargon, for those people who study Unown and such, but jargon is not enough to exhibit the language range of a world.
Of course, there are other regions left to discover (most likely). I do not count the non-main series game regions, such as Orre, as actually being part of the Pokemon world. Those regions are made for convenience sake, just like Ash "suddenly" knowing the language of Unova. But there has to be some variations of language. It just doesn't make sense for there not to be. ;023;
However, it seems more likely that people in Unova MUST speak a different language than the people in the other four known regions. Unova is too far away for them to have the same language unless they were discovered by the ancestors of people from the known four regions and settled there. But even if this were the case, the language in Unova still would have changed quite a bit. For instance, they would have certain slang terms and dialects unique to Unova.
And speaking of dialects, it is highly doubtful that someone living in Fortree City in Hoeen speaks the same dialect as someone from Sunyshore City in Sinnoh. The people of Fortree likely have a very rural dialect. The dialogue that is shown on the games is put in the standard dialect of whatever language you are playing the game in, but I think this dialogue should be looked on more as cleaned-up dialogue than what they are actually saying.
It's just that it is not possible for everyone in the entire world to speak one language, and one dialect of that language. Sure there's scientific jargon, for those people who study Unown and such, but jargon is not enough to exhibit the language range of a world.
Of course, there are other regions left to discover (most likely). I do not count the non-main series game regions, such as Orre, as actually being part of the Pokemon world. Those regions are made for convenience sake, just like Ash "suddenly" knowing the language of Unova. But there has to be some variations of language. It just doesn't make sense for there not to be. ;023;