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I was looking at Wikipeadia and falled over this on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Germanic_languages

Languages with considerable Germanic Influence

Romansh
Ladin
Friulian
Estonian
Finnish
Latvian

And it got me thinking how could we end up with a complete integration of the three bolded countries into Germanic speaking Europe and what would the effect be?

I don't think it's going to be that hard, Latvia is the easies you just need a few German free peasants in the countryside, the cities was already German. Finland is also relative easy if Sweden had keeped it to 1900 at least, I think we would have a majority Swedish-speaking Finland, Estonia is hard it shifted hand more often than the others, the Germanic minority was split between a Swedish population at the coast and on islands and a German urban population.

The best solution could be a later black death, it would mean a continued emigration from Germany and Scandinavia to these East Baltic countries, at least until the plague does come.
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