If the Franks kept Frankish?

Something I was thinking about was if instead of using Latin, the Franks had kept speaking their own West Germanic language. I understand it was a process of gaining power by switching to Latin, but how might Frankish have been shaped if the Germanic elites kept their own language?
 
They did in what became the Netherlands (Old High Frankish, which became Dutch, and spoken by the Salians) and west-central Germany (the Franconian/Old Low Frankish dialects, spoken by the Riparians).

The majority of Franks lived east of the Moselle, where Latins never really settled. And promptly assimilated or drove off other Germanics in the area for their tribe to be dominant.

Franks in France adopting Latin was like the Northmen becoming the Normans - Germanic elites adopting the tongue and customs of their new subjects.
 
Strange that Britain was the only Roman region where Germanic settlers kept their original language and didn't switch to Vulgur Latin. Perhaps if the Franks had settled in greater numbers initially, or if Latin hadn't yet supplanted Gaulish by the time they settle? But that would require a very different Migration Period.
 
They did in what became the Netherlands (Old High Frankish, which became Dutch, and spoken by the Salians) and west-central Germany (the Franconian/Old Low Frankish dialects, spoken by the Riparians).

The majority of Franks lived east of the Moselle, where Latins never really settled. And promptly assimilated or drove off other Germanics in the area for their tribe to be dominant.

Franks in France adopting Latin was like the Northmen becoming the Normans - Germanic elites adopting the tongue and customs of their new subjects.

No there was widespread settlement of Frankish "yeomen" in Gaul, but they was a too small minority to assimilate the local Gallo-Romance. If the Frankish should replace Gallo-Romance, we need Gaul to be depopulated, maybe thethe Muslims wins the Battle of Tours and continued raiding by the Muslims mean that much of Rhone valley are depopulated and the Franks have to resettle it, alternative you could have the Norse sacking Paris, which would enable them to raid the entire Seine basin. The result could be a Danelaw in Normandy (until the Frankish king reestablish control) and Frankish settlers inland, with the long term result being that northern France become dominated by Franks maybe with a unique Danish inspired dialect spoken in the lower Seine.
 
As mentioned before the Franks, atleast the ones whom lived in modern day France, adopted Latin because it was the language of their subjects and at the time it was also the language of their (soon to be)religion. Not to mention most works about law and governing were at the time written in Latin; speaking a Latin language at the time was a symbol of being civilized. So perhaps have the Franks migrate in much greater numbers and take a much more belligerant if not genocidal approach to their subject's more latin culture then perhaps we could see a Frankish speaking state form. Problem is as I said before most works in relation to administration are in Latin and much of their civilized neighbors would be speaking Latin languages. We would probaly see a much more fractured French region, even more so than it was in the Early Middle Ages in our time line. Instead of eventually seeing a united France we may instead see smaller Frankish states. If a Charlamange esque leader isn't butterflied away though we could see the Frankish culture mesh with the more established Germanic cultures in Germania and perhaps see the integration of France into the Holy Roman Empire or whatever state replaces it. That's if Charlamange isn't butterflied away though. .
 
Strange that Britain was the only Roman region where Germanic settlers kept their original language and didn't switch to Vulgur Latin. Perhaps if the Franks had settled in greater numbers initially, or if Latin hadn't yet supplanted Gaulish by the time they settle? But that would require a very different Migration Period.

Popular theories for Britain are a plague decimating the local Romano-British just in time for the Anglo-Saxons when they begin their migration and settlement, and Saxon federates having slowly settled onto the island for centuries before THE Anglo-Saxon invasion, giving a nice headway in terms of colonizing. Probably a combination of those two, as history is wont to have at times.
 
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