American English becomes a Different Language

Frankly, it borders ASB - didn't happen with ancient Greek, for instance.

A linguistic alt. history idea come to my mind there... What if some greek, or greek (ac)cultured empire ruled more than even byzance, or if the heir-states of Alexender lived more.. could there be a Hellene familly of languages, like Romance languages, derivated from Greek like the later from Latin?
 
Could it be possible that American and British relations stay cold and the US declares American as a different language to differentiate themselves even more the Brits, sort of similar to how Portuguese split off from Spanish and Dutch split off from German?

Dutch developed out of the Lower Frankish/Franconian dialects spoken in Flanders, Brabant and Holland at the western edge of the Western (continental) Germanic dialect continuum, a further help was the fact that the Low Countries were rather independent from their nominal lieges (HRE and/or France) and that from the end of the middle ages the Low Countries were one of the wealthiest regions North of the Alps. German OTOH developed from the more central and eastern dialects of the same dialect continuum.

IIRC something similar could be said about the Iberian Romance languages, for Portuguese Galician-Portuguese is important, whereas the role of Castilian (and Leonese?) was more important for Spanish.

However both weren't deliberate split offs, but rather gradual developments. Ideally with relatively few interactions between other members of the same dialect continuum.
 
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Here's one - New England successfully secedes from the US and, by now, either remains an indepedent country or is absorbed into *Canada. As a result, whilst New England remains in the "mainstream" and New England dialects influence English as spoken in Canada (and probably retain mutual intelligibility with other English varieties), English in the US drifts away and becomes a language in its own right.
 
A linguistic alt. history idea come to my mind there... What if some greek, or greek (ac)cultured empire ruled more than even byzance, or if the heir-states of Alexender lived more.. could there be a Hellene familly of languages, like Romance languages, derivated from Greek like the later from Latin?

This could happen extremely easily if you get rid of Mohammed.
 
A linguistic alt. history idea come to my mind there... What if some greek, or greek (ac)cultured empire ruled more than even byzance, or if the heir-states of Alexender lived more.. could there be a Hellene familly of languages, like Romance languages, derivated from Greek like the later from Latin?

There already is. Example: the Tsakonian language, which evolved from Doric.
 
Here's one - New England successfully secedes from the US and, by now, either remains an indepedent country or is absorbed into *Canada. As a result, whilst New England remains in the "mainstream" and New England dialects influence English as spoken in Canada (and probably retain mutual intelligibility with other English varieties), English in the US drifts away and becomes a language in its own right.

I've lived and worked in both countries and this is frankly ASB. Midwestern and Western accents are easier to understand for a Londoner than those from Newcastle for instance. i.e. even if you magnified the difference several times over, it would still be a much smaller difference than between, say, Czech and Slovak.
 
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