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Here is a very "scientific" one:

Let us imagine that Charles Martel is not successful against the Muslim armies.

The result being that Western Europe will be mostly Muslim (for some time at least) and thereby Arabic speaking as the common denominator. After all, any good Muslim ought to read and write Arabic.

Now let us also imagine that Europe develops along the same lines a OTL and Christianity etc takes over (as OTL), but the language stays

Fast forward to 19xx.

What now? English is not the dominant language and never was.

Anyone in Europe can easily communicate with a lot more people (Indonesia is mostly Muslim and thereby also Arabic speaking).

With a common language, taught to all from birth nearly, will EU be more united? a common language does have an impact

Would US, imagining that only the language gets "exported", also be Arabic speaking?

The Bible in Arabic?

Just to inspire the discussion: One of the first books printed in South Africa is a Muslim prayer book. It is printed with Arabic lettering, but the language used is Afrikaans. How it looks I have no idea.

Is this into the ASB category?


Ivan
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