AHC: Surviving Moselle Romance language

Mossellan will just be considered a French dialect..

Not in the Ill Bethisad universe, where it's the official language of an independent state centered on Alsace, and a major influence on ATL Luxembourgish. :D

Okay, Ill Bethisad is bad as an example of alternate history, but the linguistic aspect of that universe tends to be very well researched.
 
Not necessarily, Walloon is considered to be from a different branch of the same language family (langues d'oïl) as French.

Occitan Dialects are considered dialects of the same language because the accent of the Occitan dialects are more intelligible to each other compared to the French/Oil Dialects.
 
Not necessarily, Walloon is considered to be from a different branch of the same language family (langues d'oïl) as French.
Had Walloonia been French, Walloon would have gone on the pathway to extinction and be considered only another French dialect. French educationnal assimilation has killed most Oil languages and reduced the rest into mere patois.
 
Occitan Dialects are considered dialects of the same language because the accent of the Occitan dialects are more intelligible to each other compared to the French/Oil Dialects.
They can´t be dialect because there is no real central Occitan language, however you could consider them part of a very connected dialect continumm
 
The HRE holds Lorraine and the Oil language there develops differently?

It may end up as just "French" like Swiss French though.
 
The HRE holds Lorraine and the Oil language there develops differently?

It may end up as just "French" like Swiss French though.

Is the situation in the Francophone part of Switzerland, comparable to Wallonia in Belgium?

There's Belgian French and Walloon; and Swiss French and Romand.
 

Gian

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I don't know much about Moselle/Trier Romance, but my guess is either it becomes an Oil language (comparable to Walloon and Picard), or becomes heavily Germanized so it winds up like this.

As to the region at large, I was thinking maybe Luxembourg would be Romanized by TTL 2015, or at least have that language as one of its official languages, like Luxembourgish.
 
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