What is a dominant Occitania? Do you mean it is dominant over Southern France, or that its dominant over all of France, or that its dominant over England and Ireland ?
Maybe the Albigensian Crusade doesn't happen, or perhaps they get their asses handed to them ?
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Grey Wolf
What is a dominant Occitania? Do you mean it is dominant over Southern France, or that its dominant over all of France, or that its dominant over England and Ireland ?
Maybe the Albigensian Crusade doesn't happen, or perhaps they get their asses handed to them ?
Best Regards
Grey Wolf
I think the crusades are too late.
You'd have to go way back and have a romance language surviving in England from the get go I'd think; just look to the Low Countries. A Germanic language under French domination and with France right on its doorstep yet it did't lose TOO much of its range. England has the added protection of the sea stopping simple population movements and slowing natural flow too.
If England was speaking Brittanic and we have something called French still popping up in France then a French conquest of England could well lead to a language shift with it being similar but with English in place I don't see it happening.
You have to Butterfly the Saxon Invasions.but how can a romance language survive in England in the first place?
You have to Butterfly the Saxon Invasions.