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Just how many languages can we have be spoken in the British Isles? The rule is that each language has to have a territory within the British Isles where most people speak it but that area can be as small as a county or parish, or be as large as any one of the Home Nations.

Here are some ideas to have there be more languages:
  • Have Norn, Cornish, Manx and Yola intact among the commoners until the industrial revolution
  • Have the English spoken in the enclave of Southern Pembrokeshire since the 12th century diverge into a separate language due to its isolation from England
  • Have different regional germanic languages exist within England. For example, have the vernacular of Nortumberland, for example, be as different from standard English as Yola is.
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