Effects of a "Latinized" North Africa?

With a POD sometime around 40 BC, the Roman Empire manages to conquer and hold North Africa from Egypt to the Atlantic until 400 AD, but after that things more or less proceed to OTL, until the rise of Islam.

Assuming the Latinized North Africa becomes more like Rome, but does not deteriorate and stays physically united and controlled, how does this Latinized North Africa stand against the winds of history?
 
Well, North Africa was Latinized OTL, and then after the Arab conquest in the 600s it was Arabized. Except for Morocco, where the natives took back over. So, lets butterfly away them Arabizing North Africa, and they stay speaking a Latin-esque language. Once the Caliphate loses control of North Africa, then the new nations would take over. There would not be that much effect to this, except that it might be easier for the Romance Europeans to conquer North Africa and assimilate it. Unless we assume that North Africa remains Christian, then that's when we see the butterfly's go insane...
 
Have Gregory the Patrician, Roman exarch of Africa, succeed in defeating the initial Arab invasion at Sufetula. The Arabs would try again but would experience a civil war with the death of Caliph Uthman. In OTL, they would only invade North Africa a second time twenty years later giving Gregory the chance to shore up his power base (being an independent warlord who seized power from Constantinople) and improve relations with the Berber tribes. North Africa would remain a multilingual but culturally Romanized hodgepodge of Romans, Greeks, Punics and Berbers. Some form of Latin would end up being the spoken language of the people living in North Africa.
 
North Africa was Latinized, but the Arabization of the area changed all of that. During the colonial period, Spain, France and Italy controlled most of North Africa so they could possibly re-Latinize it, but that's something different.
 
North Africa was Latinized, but the Arabization of the area changed all of that. During the colonial period, Spain, France and Italy controlled most of North Africa so they could possibly re-Latinize it, but that's something different.

I could just imagine the French and African Romance speakers trying to figure out what words they share and what words they don't... Now that would be a funny sight:D.
 
In real life, it was taken by the Germanics like the Vandals, whilst Egypt remained under the Byzantines.

I think had islam still emerged, then they would have fell to the Arabs anyhow.
 
I could just imagine the French and African Romance speakers trying to figure out what words they share and what words they don't... Now that would be a funny sight:D.
Not just between the French and African Romance speakers, but also Sabir speakers of Algiers region
 
Would they be Romance speaking Muslims or Catholics?
Most likely they would be either Muslim or Orthodox Christian. There would probably be a catholic minority in areas that are under European control for long periods of time, such as Mellila, Ceuta, and Oran.
 
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