In my latest story, I am working on creating a new English dialect. It is spoken by the people of the Yukon after a war completely stop all incoming flights and imports leaving them completely cut off from the rest of the world. Over the course of almost two centuries, the adopted a nomanic and subsistance lifestyle and became completely illiterate.
One aspect I considered was because there was no longer any written language that the pronunciation of words changed little by little over the years until by the time the story takes place that by the time someone from the outside world finds them, they actually notice they don't quite pronounce words the same way the rest of the English world does.
Is this plausible, and what other evolutions of the language could occur given what we know?
One aspect I considered was because there was no longer any written language that the pronunciation of words changed little by little over the years until by the time the story takes place that by the time someone from the outside world finds them, they actually notice they don't quite pronounce words the same way the rest of the English world does.
Is this plausible, and what other evolutions of the language could occur given what we know?