Can the Franks remain Germanic, or will they inevitably speak Romance?

Don't want to open up a new thread, but who was the last person that self identify as Frank?
You had a smooth transition between Frank and French in the middle-ages, both terms being more or less interchangable. Both, in medieval latin, are called Franci, and in a sense they are a same word pronounced differently.
There was a similar transition with Franconians.
 
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Could any of these two work to re make the Situation in Britain
No, with all due respects to posters. It makes simply far too much unbased assumptions, and completly misses what Late Roman society were, including (but not only) what were the relations and integration of Barbarians vis à vis from Romania.
Honestly, I would have nothing against an ASB timeline where Barbarians people turn the whole of Romania as a big equivalent to post-Roman Britain : but it's not something you can pull off realistically, no matter how one tries, or twist.

I can't make it clearer than this : Barbarian peoples very existence is tied to their relationship with late Roman structures since the IIIrd century, at latest. If you get rid of these, you get rid of the others in any recognizable manner.
And to get rid of these structures, you'd need a much earlier PoD that would probably get rid of Roman conquest in first place.
Finally, we can't consider Barbarian peoples as your Tacitus' Ist century textbooks Germans at this point : they were heavily romanized, integrated as a part of Romania, and growingly included Romans since the IVth century onwards.

I think we're rather stuck in this discussion, so I think I'll let at this if you don't mind.
 
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Perhaps an analogy would help.
Think of the Roman Empire as a giant mansion.
They've built outbuildings and allowed the Barbarians to move into them.
While some barbarians have built their own outbuildings they prefer the better built Roman ones and move into those as the are vacated.
Later on the Romans allow some to move into the lesser rooms of the mansion to keep them functioning.
 
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... It's known, furthermore, that Romance enclaves in Rhineland (especially Moselle) survived into the Xth. ...
Latin inscriptions from the merovingian era from this region show some peculiar spelling errors that can best be explained by the adoption of the High German consonant shift for the Romance spoken in this area as well.

Don't want to open up a new thread, but who was the last person that self identify as Frank?
Does any self identified Frank still exist in 18th-19th century?
There are a lot of people who'd self identify as Franks even today. Just ask anyone from around Nuremberg if he's Bavarian. ;)
 
@LaSlavic86
Perhaps an analogy would help.
Think of the Roman Empire as a giant mansion.
They've built outbuildings and allowed the Barbarians to move into them.
While some barbarians have built their own outbuildings they prefer the better built Roman ones and move into those as the are vacated.
Later on the Romans allow some to move into the lesser rooms of the mansion to keep them functioning.
i kinda understood some time ago, but thanks anyway:)
 
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