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I have decided to start another thread to discuss the evolution of the French language in my new timeline "The Great Flame of France" (see sig). In this timeline, the House of Burgundy will come to rule France around 1400, joining the territories of Flanders and the Duchy and County of Burgundy to the French crown. France will continue to expand east, adding many Germanic language speaking peoples in the Low Countries and Rhineland to the kingdom. One of my goals for the timeline is to have a more Germanic French language (though it will obviously remain a Romance language).
With a POD in 1393, how much Germanic influence could there be on the French language in terms of grammar and vocabulary? In this scenario many French kings will speak Flemish or other west Germanic languages, and many people from the Low Countries and Rhineland will move to France fleeing the various wars the French will have gaining control of the region. Another thing to keep in mind is that the Germanic-Romance linguistic frontier will not shift east again the way it did in the modern era in OTL.
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