AHC: No Surviving European Languages?

Yes, this is true, I just thought that it'd be worth mentioning this for the sake of completeness. ;)

Completeness is always useful.

I think part of the problem is that the nonIndo-European language groups are not really in a position to swarm all over Europe and assimilate it utterly.

Maybe if the area that OTL has become Russia was inhabited by a China-like state (in multiple ways), that kind of force could do it, but otherwise...
 
In 1ad? I thought they were still all out in asia at that time

Nobody really knows, but it is rather widely accepted that no Turkic language was spoken in Europe by 1 AD, or at least there is no reliable evidence of such a thing, to my knowledge.
I was referring to languages historically spoken in Europe OTL by 2011.
 
Completeness is always useful.

I think part of the problem is that the nonIndo-European language groups are not really in a position to swarm all over Europe and assimilate it utterly.

Maybe if the area that OTL has become Russia was inhabited by a China-like state (in multiple ways), that kind of force could do it, but otherwise...

Uber-Huns ?
Ogodai lives and European (Hungarian based) Mongol Successor State adopts some weird form of religion carrying out Arabization analog on spades?
Uhm, I'm afraid none of both is likely to be total enough.
 
Uber-Huns ?
Ogodai lives and European (Hungarian based) Mongol Successor State adopts some weird form of religion carrying out Arabization analog on spades?
Uhm, I'm afraid none of both is likely to be total enough.

Yeah. Thus my comment on China-like states.

You'd need something overwhelmingly dominant to the point the European (sub)continent is merely absorbed as the western lands of the Uberstate, I think. Nothing else would be sufficiently potent - even some kind of Western Khanate still won't eliminate everything.

Nothing like that ever existed in what we now call Russia with any POD after recorded history.
 
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