Which of the following situations is most likely to result in language divergence?
a.
two different languages that are spoken in the same geographic area combine to form a new one.
b.
a language is spoken in two isolated geographic areas, and there is little contact between the two peoples.
c.
people who speak different dialects of the same language begin to interact in the same geographic region.
d.
old vocabulary is reintroduced into a language.