Why is it that North Indians and South Indians seem to have the same accent in English despite their mother tongues being completely unrelated?
Not sure if it’s just my lack of experience/education with this topic, but it genuinely seems to me that speakers of Indo-Aryan languages in the north of India and speakers of Dravidian languages in the south have the same English accents. No clue as to why that is - do they happen to have similar phonologies despite obviously not being related? Or perhaps it has something to do with a sprachbund?