AHC: Have Germanic-speaking Eastern Europe and Celtic-speaking Western Europe in Middle Ages

krieger

Banned
The question is simple. How would You create a alternate world, in which majority of people living in Eastern Europe speaks some Germanic lanuage, and majority of people living in Western Europe speaks Celtic in Middle Ages. The border between Western and Eastern Europe is rivier Elbe.
 
Perhaps have the Gallic Empire survive and go on a gradual but successful push to de-Romanize itself in language and culture to disassociate from Rome, yet still hold the fort against the Germanic tribes raiding from the east, who then cluster enough to keep the Rhine eastwards Germanic-speaking due to not being able to spread themselves across the Empire.
 
Somehow stop Rome rising as empire and so no conquest of Gaul. Carthagians never take over Iberia and Celts take the region. Germanic tribes move to Eat Europe instead to Gaul and Italy, altough I don't know why they would do that.
 
Mostly what was said : at the moment Rome takes on western Europe, latinisation is linguistically more or less bound to happen, while giving Germanic-speaking people little room else than Central Europe to move on.
 

Albert.Nik

Banned
Germanic peoples in the Mediaeval era are said to be driven west by the Huns. Somehow have a strong empire established by them or Scythians or the Balto-Slavic peoples in the East Frontier Europe. They would then stop the Huns and won't have to move West. Western Europe would become Celtic and Italic and Eastern parts would become Germanic,Iranian and Slavic.
 
Oddly enough, according to Caesar even axillaries from cisalpine Gaul (modern day Italy, but these people had much more in common with other Gauls than Italians linguistically and culturally until Roman assimilation) were able to understand most of the vernacular in Britain aside from idioms (he used Gauls who traded with the island for diplomatic interpretation to avoid a faux pas because of those difference)

Given that written Breton from the 800s were readable to Breton intelleculuals of the 1800s, this and Caesar's comment might mean that western Europe before the Romans were almost united in language.
 
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