Language in One Piece


I understand that One Piece is anime and not real, but come to think of it,
how come _everyone_ speaks the same language. In the Punk Hazard Arc, Kin'emon
exclaimed about foreign lands from where the straw hats came. But still,
_everyone_ with no exclusions speaks the same. Any indications or anything?




From the evidence that's currently present, it seems like this is a side-
effect of the world having a single government.

For instance the phoneglyphs aren't in Japanese, since only Robn can read
them. If they were a simple alphabet change, then someone would have figured
it out already. This means, that there were different languages back then (at
least one).

So, there's a chance the world was as diverse in terms of language as ours,
but then the void century ended when the current world government defeated the
others. Just think about it, if Japan would take over the whole world, then
everyone would speak Japanese here too.

The bigger question is, that why didn't they develop accents. The islands make
the people isolated into small groups. This is a perfect enviroment for that
to happen. Even half a century should be enough to result in at least some
small changes.




This was answered by Oda in SBS Vol. 25:

> **Reader:** I have a serious question for Oda-sensei. How come, in manga, no
> matter where you go, everyone always speaks the same language?
>
> **Oda:** Because manga is something where everyone's dreams are depicted.

source: <http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/SBS_Volume_25>

* * *

Besides this, I remember another statement from Oda where he said the offical
language in the series is english (no source, sorry). This is indicated when
you see an english name for an attack or a character. (e. g. "Nations Might"
is not written in kanji in the manga.)

