How come everyone speaks one Klingon language with Qo'nos dialect exclusively?
Or to put the question in another way, why is it never considered that, perhaps, an alien race would be culturally fragmented, like the human race, and possess several languages and dialects?
Of the most spoken languages on Earth, like English or Spanish, they have different variations (like accents or dialects), and sometimes Spanish speakers from Argentina have difficulties communicating with Spanish speakers from the United States or Spain...
I understand that, for budget reasons it may be impractical to create a profound backstory for all the languages and dialects that could exist, but, the fact that it's just never even explained or considered, as if this problem was impossible to exist, baffles me. In Star Trek The Next Generation, Jean-Luc Picard gets annoyed at Data for suggesting, in English, that French is a dead language, but Worf (a Klingon who is also on the scene) never even comments that such a problem could exist in the Klingon Empire. Naturally, everybody speaks Klingon in the Qo'nos dialect! I mean, really?!
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On Earth, there are 6,500 spoken languages, and Earth is only just one planet.
The Klingon Empire has at least 17 known planets.
How come everyone speaks one Klingon language with Qo'nos dialect exclusively?
Or to put the question in another way, why is it never considered that, perhaps, an alien race would be culturally fragmented, like the human race, and possess several languages and dialects?
Of the most spoken languages on Earth, like English or Spanish, they have different variations (like accents or dialects), and sometimes Spanish speakers from Argentina have difficulties communicating with Spanish speakers from the United States or Spain...
I understand that, for budget reasons it may be impractical to create a profound backstory for all the languages and dialects that could exist, but, the fact that it's just never even explained or considered, as if this problem was impossible to exist, baffles me. In Star Trek The Next Generation, Jean-Luc Picard gets annoyed at Data for suggesting, in English, that French is a dead language, but Worf (a Klingon who is also on the scene) never even comments that such a problem could exist in the Klingon Empire. Naturally, everybody speaks Klingon in the Qo'nos dialect! I mean, really?!
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