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Consider these two maps of the Roman Empire in 330, plus some important info on the first three Justinian emperors. We can discern the following: The Eastern Roman Empire is a mostly Greek-speaking empire since forever (read: Alexander the Great), but its northwesternmost territory is...

Your chalenge, with a POD not earlier than the fall of the WRE, is to have a state with this borders in AD 2022. Bonus point if there is a common lenguage spoken by the vast majority of the population.

In a timeline with a much smaller Roman republic/empire, how small could the Roman state get and still manage to spread Latin letters to a recognizable extent? Of course a lot of Latin alphabets were adopted long after this through religion, trade, or colonization, such as the Vietnamese...

Since Latin was the language of academics, religion, and government for a while in Catholic Europe for a while, could there be a way for a European country (or multiple) to revive Latin as a widespread tongue during the modern era? There are many ways this can happen: 19th century nationalist...

I remember the Ferriolid Dynasty had ended and their male line ended and the most senior and daughter of the last Ferriolid Dynasty married a descendant of Scandanavian lord who was made a foederati over the Saxon Shore area, which is basically the Rolloid dynasty. Western Roman Empire was lost...

I’m interested in Romania specifically due to its unique Latin culture and the fact its inherently more Western or “Mediterranean” (using the term liberally) than Eastern European or “Russian.” Facially, culturally, linguistically Romanians share far more with Spaniards or Italians than...

Obviously, the core of the East was always in Greece, but was the obsoletion of the Latin language and culture inevitable? What developments would be needed to prolong or indefinitely keep it? If a later Emperor had some nostalgic ideas, is a later revival possible? Retainment seems to have a...

Many in the early Christian Church viewed the crucifixion of Jesus on orders of Pontius Pilate as a sin collectively shared by the whole of the Roman Empire and its people; the subsequent treatment of Christians in the 1st century AD by the Roman authorities did not help improve their image in...

While it's been gestating ever since I took my first Latin class in high school, recent events have convinced me to make good on that interest and study up on Classical Civilization. Given the myriad achievements of the ancient Greeks and Romans--from inventions like the Antikythera mechanism...

Despite the fact that they've been out of everyday use for quite some time and were once spoken in eras without modern recording, long-extant languages still remain with us in some form or another. Enough, in fact, so that dedicated learners can become fluent and immerse themselves in the works...

What if the Latin influence in the British Isle stayed or was larger. Maybe the Saxons and Jutes and other Germanic peoples have less of an impact and only make a small influence.

How would it be possible that during the Risorgimento of the 19th century, the proponents of the social movement of Italian Unification are a bit more enthusiastic about the Ancient Roman Empire and decide to make a modernized form of Latin the official language of Italy, kinda like how 19th...

What if the non-ecclesiastial, late Latin of the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment survived to the modern day? Regularized, and simplified to an extent that you can turn any word from any language into a new Latin word as the text requires and inflect it with the existing rules...

Let's say that the Romans conquered up to the northern tip of Scandinavia, as difficult as that is. Where would the dividing line between Roman-speaking Latin-speaking provinces and Greek-speaking provinces be?

So lets say that France turns facist in Februar 1934. How would their foreign policy change? Would they ally with Italy? Could this militarized France defeat Germany?

With a POD after the fall of the Roman Empire and before the Industrial Revolution, could a language other than French have become the lingua franca of Europe, before English in the 20th century? Could Latin have become a serious spoken language outside of the Catholic Church and some...

eh, might as well just get to the point. Etymology The name India as used by most European languages came from Latin: India, which came from ancient Greek: Ινδία (Indía) which is from Ινδός (Indós) [ the Indus river], which was borrowed from old Persian: (Hindūš), modern Farsi: هند‎‎ (Hend)...

OTL we ended up with 3 (ignoring IPA and similar Romanisation): 1 for Polish, 1 for Czech and Slovak, and 1 for the Southern Slavic languages. Could we have a single, common, alphabet in use? And what would it look like?

With a POD of let’s say 1066 have Engliah use the Cyrillic alphabet. It must also be influenced mostly the same way as it is OTL. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_language_influences_in_English This alternate English must be recognizable with the only major thing changing being the...

The challenge if you choose to accept it, is with a POD in the year 400, to meet the following challenges: *You do not have to meet every single criteria, meet the ones you feel most possible. This challenge is generally to create a more Neo-Latin Europe than otl Middle Ages due to changes...