Does Language Unite People

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Does the language unite or separate people? This issue is very complicated, I think. There are many countries and nations throughout the world. The world speaks different languages. Even in one country there may be many different languages, for example in Russia. There are accents, which are blurred depending on the region. Or even several official languages can exist in one country, for example, in Switzerland people speak three different languages - Italian, German and French.
People often say that one language is one nation. Speaking about Russia, we have one official literary Russian language, but of course not all people use it. I think that language is not only what it is officially, but there are also the dialects and pronunciation variants,

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