How was it possible?>Latin, introduce by the legions>it's a written language, there are schools, libraries to expand it and preserve it >language of the Church, administration, culture, etc. >barbarians that "want to be part of the Imperium" settled in the 'light green areas'>their languages have no alphabet, there are no schools >they adopt the religion and alphabet of the Romans >they refuse to adopt their language (Hungary literally had Latin as official language for 1 ENTIRE MILLENNIUM and nobody learned it)>Latin lost despite being superior and more beautifulHOW? It literally makes no sense!!Same for Turkey and Balkans, how Greek was replaced by Turkish and South Slavic languages if those were not only spoken by less people and had no alphabet, but also Greek was spoke in those regions for millennia and most people used it (and sounds better; jews translated the Torah to Greek because they admitted it was more beautiful than Hebrew)?!
>>18348044>>Latin lost despite being superior and more beautifulDerivatives of Late Latin are spoken in literally all of these green areas. It didn't 'lose' at all. The only places that Latin was actually exterminated from was the Balkans and North Africa. With Illyria and Moesia being nearly completely Latin speaking, being dislodged by the invading Slavs who had nothing to do with the local population whom they replaced. In Africa it just seems like the Romance Berber faded away and Arabic was imposed as it was in the rest of the Near East too.
This map is bit misleading. The local lower classes continued to speak indigenous languages in many areas. Greek and Latin were the tongues of educated men. Only the most Romanized areas completely switched over. In Britain for instance there were always brythonic speakers. There is also some evidence that what would become Spanish, Italian, and French had already begun to diverge from one another as early as the late empire.
>>18348057Fucking goddamn muslims destroyed so much baka
>>18348044The question is why it didn't lose more >>18343325
>>18348057>Derivatives of Late Latin are spoken in literally all of these green areas. It didn't 'lose' at all. Those areas speak Germanic or Slavic languages, it was a total lose.>>18348057Why in 4 centuries, Latin did not penetrate in the lower classes of those areas?
>>18348044Linguistic proximity matters. Except Britain, Roman areas that adopted Latin originally spoke a Celtic language like Gaulish, Lepontic or Celtiberian, and Celtic languages are closely related to Italic languages like Latin. For Romania it's speculation but what probably happened is that a Latin-speaking population simply replaced the native population
>>18348162>Those areas speak Germanic or Slavic languages, it was a total lose.All the green areas speak a Romance language nigga
>>18348252Which Romance language???
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