Barbarian languages in the post-Roman world

If you can keep Hilderic from dying, and thus keep the Vandal kingdom independent, you could have a Berbero-Romano-Vandalic language develop as Vandals converted to Nicene Christianity and begin to intermingle with the locals.
 
If you can keep Hilderic from dying, and thus keep the Vandal kingdom independent, you could have a Berbero-Romano-Vandalic language develop as Vandals converted to Nicene Christianity and begin to intermingle with the locals.

The chance the Vandals leave much of a legacy aside from some common personal names and some toponymy is pretty slim. Probably they'd leave a few dozen words in African Romance languages, comparable to East Germanic influences in other Romance languages.
 
If you can keep Hilderic from dying, and thus keep the Vandal kingdom independent, you could have a Berbero-Romano-Vandalic language develop as Vandals converted to Nicene Christianity and begin to intermingle with the locals.
Vandalic language pretty much was unused, safe institutional markers, in the VIth as with all the other Germanic languages of Barbarians once settling in Romania. While you could have some Germanic influence on Africano-Romance, it wouldn't be enough to call it a Romano-Vandalic language.
Of course, even during Hilderic's reign, Berbers were pushing Vandals to the coast and without Byzantine reconquest may simply have formed a Berbero-Roman ensemble.
 
If you can keep Hilderic from dying, and thus keep the Vandal kingdom independent, you could have a Berbero-Romano-Vandalic language develop as Vandals converted to Nicene Christianity and begin to intermingle with the locals.
What would the Vandal contribution to such a language be? I imagine that Latin and Berber will be prominent but what about Vandalic?
 
Vandalic language pretty much was unused, safe institutional markers, in the VIth as with all the other Germanic languages of Barbarians once settling in Romania. While you could have some Germanic influence on Africano-Romance, it wouldn't be enough to call it a Romano-Vandalic language.
Of course, even during Hilderic's reign, Berbers were pushing Vandals to the coast and without Byzantine reconquest may simply have formed a Berbero-Roman ensemble.
Maybe the Vandals could hold onto the core around Carthage?
 
Why might that be?
There isn't any specific reasons, they just happened to replace words for common things, although still half of those are words that I almost never heard, some even seem to be an attempt at applying Italian grammar to English words. It's weird, from the lists I find it's either common words or words I never see, rarely in between, maybe it's due to those latter being dialectal, archaic or maybe I'm losing my grasp on less common Italian.

Striking is that the word for war has been replaced in virtually all Romance languages, although I don't see this tendency of Germanic loanwords being relagated to military stuff, it's true they don't enter complex fields but they still tend to be loanwords for daily life. I also noticed that quite some body parts have origin in Germanic, which is also interesting, not that many but still more than what one would think.
 
@Carp will be better fit answering this, but I'd say that while you had rest of imperial bureaucracy, this was ended by the rise of Carolingian feudality, from which administration/landowning/benefices were almost systematically mixed which was not the case under, say, Merovingians or Lombards (AFAIK in the last case) except in latter periods (and for Merovingians, mostly because Carolingians already dominated these matters)..

To what extent the Lombard bureaucracy represented a continuation of Roman bureaucracy is something which I don’t really feel qualified to address; it’s rather outside my area of interest. But there is clear continuity of the Lombard administrative apparatus through the Carolingian and even the Ottonian periods, which is to say that the administrative center of the royal palace of Pavia and its associated class of Pavian notarii survived not only the Carolingian conquest but the “feudal anarchy” of the late 9th and early 10th centuries. The nadir of the Pavian administration was probably under Hugh, but the Pavian government survived him and was to some extent rejuvenated by the Ottonians who took a keen interest in their southern conquests.

Although under non-Lombard management, the Lombard administrative state arguably survived into the reign of Emperor Henry II, who unlike his predecessors placed relatively little emphasis on Italy and allowed the Pavian government and its administrative class to decay. When he died in 1024, the Pavians attacked and destroyed the royal palace, which had by now become a symbol of foreign control rather than native administration, which is as good as any as a “death date” for the Lombard state. The destruction of the palace was also a important milestone in the dissociation of urbanity and royal power in Italy; Lombard governance had centered on the cities, inherited from Rome, but after the rule of Henry II the agents of royal power were to be found in the countryside, in the castles of the rural nobility, rather than the cities which increasingly would become centers of opposition to royal/imperial power.
 
Maybe the Vandals could hold onto the core around Carthage?
Frankly, it's unlikely : Berbers raided Carthage's regions (maybe Carthage itself, but that's really debatable) during Byzantine period, so I'd not see Vandals being able to hold on the region alone.
Would they be able to do so, being the clear Africano-Romance core region, it would give even less Germanic influence.
 
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