Alternate Languages: The Classics

One thing I've never really seen a lot of in many ATLs is how language develops in an alternate world. It stands to reason that, if for example, the Normans never invaded England, then English would be very different (or, "More like the Dutch of our world," as L. Sprague de Camp's character once put it in "Aristotle and the Gun").

So, starting with perhaps Rome losing the Punic Wars, how might have the later Romance languages have developed after several centuries of greater Greek and later Germanic (I think) influences?
 
One thing I've never really seen a lot of in many ATLs is how language develops in an alternate world. It stands to reason that, if for example, the Normans never invaded England, then English would be very different (or, "More like the Dutch of our world," as L. Sprague de Camp's character once put it in "Aristotle and the Gun").

So, starting with perhaps Rome losing the Punic Wars, how might have the later Romance languages have developed after several centuries of greater Greek and later Germanic (I think) influences?
My TL, the Raptor of Spain has been dealing with language differences for a long time. For example, in RoS the Carolingian Empire survived intact but lost the west (west of the Loire) and never had a lasting presence in Italy. Instead it expanded eastward similar to the way East Francia/HRE did. Consequently, the Alt-French language has a Germanic base instead of a Latinate one. Viking settlement was not in Normandy, but in Aquitania/Gascony owing to certain other elements there is no "Normandy" in Alt-France and Austria (from Asutrasia) is the capital region around Metz. The heir to the alt-French throne is the "High Prince of Austria." A unified Iberia (alt-Spain) incorporated Septimania into itself by 900. Thus the entire development of Occitan languages is radically altered.

One of the difficulties is that there are so many influences and languages that it's hard to really tackle the issue at all plausibly as well as write the rest of the TL. Since I spend most of my time on the alt-Spanish languages and know only a few phrases in French and none in German I try to avoid dealing with it beyond the level of place and personal names. (I.E. Louis/Ludwig = Lutis, Odo/Eudes = Eudor, Amaury = Aimre(c)t, Alsace = Alsesta).
 
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One thing I've never really seen a lot of in many ATLs is how language develops in an alternate world. It stands to reason that, if for example, the Normans never invaded England, then English would be very different (or, "More like the Dutch of our world," as L. Sprague de Camp's character once put it in "Aristotle and the Gun").

So, starting with perhaps Rome losing the Punic Wars, how might have the later Romance languages have developed after several centuries of greater Greek and later Germanic (I think) influences?

It's kind of hard to judge the Germanic influences on the Romance languages which wasn't that much to begin with. Latin was considered the prestige language in the west
 
Well presumably by 'Romance languages' you mean those in the Italian Peninsula alone because Gaul, Spain, Dacia etc would never get conquered (or are absorbed only late, and weakly) by Latin-speakers if the Romans lose the Punic Wars.

If you are asking what happens to the languages of 'Portugal', 'Spain' and 'France' they stay Celtic-speaking to a large degree with admixtures (to a greater or lesser degree) of Punic (Iberia) and Greek (from Massalia) and maybe some Latin.

In Italy probably Latin stays as just one of several regional languages like Etruscan, Venetic, Oscan, Umbrian etc.
 
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