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Not Exactly! Greeks historians noted that Dorian's came from North. They spoke a dialect of Hellenic language. Dialects rise when some people switch from one language to another. Let say Sicilian dialect rose from switching from Sicilian language to Latin. That means Dorian's had probably spoken Albanian or some other pre-European language and switched to Hellenic. The Dorian dialect did not rise as a geographic seperation because historians wrote that Dorian came. When they did come to the area they had been Hellenized. They also developed they own version of art based on pre existing Greek ART.
That's just not true. People don't stop linguistic evolution (which creates accents, then dialects, then finally separate sister languages) just because they've already been speaking that certain language as their mother tongue for many generations (or since basically "ever" as far as the history of their people goes). Dialects may be and often are influenced by subtrates, but not only is it not the main explanation for the later developments (post-linguistic shift with the adoption of other language as the native language of the new generations), it is also not a necessary nor sufficient condition for the appearance of distinct dialects. Actually, dialects may converge and diverge in a myriad of ways even if the interactions are basically among people who already speak the same language, because no language is a monolitic block without any variation, they - unless the language is spoken by a tiny community - naturally develop sociolects (class variation), dialects (regional) and even idiolects (individual variation) that interact with and influence each other and, besides all of that, also have their own internal evolution regardless of any external influence.