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Why did Barbarian conquorers adopt the languages of the peoples they conquered in the former Roman empire?

What could lead to Romans adopting barbarian languages?

What barbarian languages that were subsumed in favor of a Latin or other pre migration era language, had the highest liklihood of subsuming the latter?
  • Frankish in Gaul
  • Burgundian
  • Langobard
  • Gothic in Iberia, Italy
  • Vandalic
  • Suebic

Why did barbarian languages prevail in some parts of the former Roman Empire? For example
  • Slavic in the Balkans
  • Anglo-Saxon in England and parts of Scotland
  • Various German languages in the Alps, southern germany, Rhine area

Could Arabic and Turkish be described as barbarian languages compared to the languages they conquered?
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