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Although both countries speak Korean, the political division of North and South Korea has led to not-insubstantial linguistic differences. Are there any other historical examples where the division of a population through political boundaries or barriers resulted in linguistic divergence?

by /u/TheWinStore in /r/AskHistorians

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