Keep Noricum celtic

With a POD in 300 AD, would it still be possible to keep Noricum celtic speaking ? or was the norican language extinct by then ? What else could be done to make noricum celtic, maybe celts from the british islands like Bretons or Welsh end up in modern Austria and found a kingdom there ? or is that ASB i mean, if people from central asia (the magyars) can found a kingdom in middle europe, why shoud that not be possible for the celts in Britain. well, but the magyars were much more numerous i gues.
 
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I think you need to get the Noric language to become either a language of religion or prestige.

preventing the population from speaking Latin or Germanic...thats more of a challenge. weaker Romans means weaker influence of Latin.
 
maybe there could be a Norican church. When did the norican language dissappear from Noricum though ? maybe noricum never becomes a roman province, but remains as satellite state, there wouldnt be as much roman influence then i think, atleast not in the population.
 
Well it could survive as a minority language in the alpine valleys and than have a revival in the 19th and 20th century.
 
it should stay main language, maybe the Noricans will become rivals of the romans in this timeline, and ally themselves with others and manage to become independent ? Maybe they ally with the illyrians, gauls, pannonians and raetians and maybe some germanics and challenge the roman empire.
 
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So, the POD's shifted to some time well before 300 AD, I'm guessing.

Even if the Noricans somehow build a civilization comparable to Rome and have their own language, at some point, their empire's going to collapse, and that part of Europe will face major migrations over the years - Germans, Slavs, Turks, peoples that don't exist OTL, and what have you, all speaking their own languages.

Best case scenario, you have something like OTL Latin. Latin is a dead language, but it was the language of the Church and the highly educated for millennia, and it greatly influenced French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, etc. We have an entire branch of languages that are all just Latin knockoffs. So with a Celtic-speaking ancient empire in that part of the world, I could imagine modern Celtic languages surviving there as majority languages, yes.

But with a POD of 300 AD, no.
 
i dont mean it in such a way, the norican language should just remain language of noricum, not be a important language like Latin. languages like basque survived aswell. what about migration from insular celts to modern Austria ?
 
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