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The United States of Latin Africa was a hypothetical country proposed by Barthelemy Boganda, first president of what is now the Central African Republic. Being pragmatic, Boganda realised that the CAR wouldn't do well economically and wanted to create a federation out of French Equatorial Africa...

So, in most places controlled by the Roman Empire, with sizeable Latinized populations a version of vulgar Latin became one of today's Romance languages, with the exception of Britain and Greece/Byzantium. Why in the Eastern Empire did Greek eventually replace Latin and why didn't the...

As the title asks find a way to preserve Latin as a spoken language until today. It does not have to actually be Latin, but must have a clear line of descent with the language spoken by the Romans. Also it does not have to be spoken by very many people. A few hundred thousand will suffice. I...

So essentially minimizing the influence of the Anglo-Saxon-Jutes on Britain, and keeping them either totally out, or having them assimilate into Romano-British culture and language. How would this be possible? Assuming this version of Vulgar Latin survived into its own Romance language a la...

Romance languages have feminine nouns derived from Latin feminine and masculine derived from Latin masculine and neuter. Sound changes tend to render this two-way distinction one way or another, (almost) always merging masculine and neuter. Could a Romance language plausibly go through sound...

Most Romance languages have two genders. Feminine derived from Latin feminine, and masculine derived from Latin masculine and neuter. Some keep a vestigial neuter, but this thread is not about that. In many Romance languages, feminine nouns end with -a while masculine nouns end with -o. In...

Many have imagined an alternate version of English without the Norman conquest, a much more Germanic, speculative language often called "Anglish". What about the opposite? A maximally French, Romance, Latin-influenced English with the fewest Germanic words possible. Only the most basic words...

Since it seems a few of people have been debating this in other threads, I thought it would be interesting to see what the general consensus is as I find this question rather interesting. One could argue that since the Empire was partioned following the 4th Crusade the political continuity that...

Linguistics is based on opinion. Linguists attempt to classify languages into one family each. Do the classifications tell us everything about ancestry? Absolutely not. They tend to shortcut history, misleading all who listen. Is English a Romance Language? English has part Romance blood in it...

Is it possible for the Roman Republic to take over the Mediterranean without adopting Hellenization as their own, seeing the Greeks the same way they saw the Carthaginians or Gauls? Could a Romance language become the primary language of Greece? What if the 279 BC Celtic invasion of Greece...

I know this sounds crazy considering how it wasn't written down and there wasn't really a standard, more so it was probably hundreds of dialects of peasant latin spoken but I wondered, if many modern countries were able to standardize and use one common dialect or variant of a language, could...