OK, this is a very difficult one.
The goal is to get English in England and Latin in Italy, Tunisia, Algeria, and France. And get Breton in Brittany, plus either Cornwall or Ireland. English can be as far as Early Modern English, or at least something mutually comprehensible with OTL English. (need >75% penetration on total population level and nearly all the elites speak target language). POD can be AD 69 or later, but can't butterfly a Christianity with papal primacy.
For Italy, find some way to stop the language drift. Well, it doesn't need to be completely stopped, but I mean Greek existed as a language for longer than Latin so that's certainly doable to keep the language drift at that "minimalist" level.
Oh... problem. English needs Old English + Normans. With no Normans, you'd at best get some Anglo- Latin mix. Which means France needs to go from Latin to French (so that we have a Norman dialect) to... Latin. Ugh
Edit: And When I say "England, Italy, Tunisia, Algeria, France, Brittany..." I'm talking about OTL geographical locations. These kingdoms and in some cases even the place names are butterflied away if the POD is early enough. So the boarders might be completely different, or maybe Europe is all Roman with English being one dialect in Britannia, or something, but the places are still going to be there even without OTL names and boarders.
The goal is to get English in England and Latin in Italy, Tunisia, Algeria, and France. And get Breton in Brittany, plus either Cornwall or Ireland. English can be as far as Early Modern English, or at least something mutually comprehensible with OTL English. (need >75% penetration on total population level and nearly all the elites speak target language). POD can be AD 69 or later, but can't butterfly a Christianity with papal primacy.
For Italy, find some way to stop the language drift. Well, it doesn't need to be completely stopped, but I mean Greek existed as a language for longer than Latin so that's certainly doable to keep the language drift at that "minimalist" level.
Oh... problem. English needs Old English + Normans. With no Normans, you'd at best get some Anglo- Latin mix. Which means France needs to go from Latin to French (so that we have a Norman dialect) to... Latin. Ugh
Edit: And When I say "England, Italy, Tunisia, Algeria, France, Brittany..." I'm talking about OTL geographical locations. These kingdoms and in some cases even the place names are butterflied away if the POD is early enough. So the boarders might be completely different, or maybe Europe is all Roman with English being one dialect in Britannia, or something, but the places are still going to be there even without OTL names and boarders.
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