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With some nice KoJ threads popping up a long standing question has cropped up in my mind. Obviously based on the title what in your opinion would be the language development of a surviving Kingdom of Jerusalem.

The usual idea is to have a heavily Arabic-influence French, or in some cases vice-versa but thinking on it not all 'peasants' and such coming to Jerusalem where French and some, if not most of the many either major or minor peasant crusades and/or pilgrimages would see many people of German origin emigrate to Jerusalem too. (If successful).

Obviously one issue you could bring up is the fact that the nobility were mostly French lords and such which got almost all the Crusaders the nice name of Franks to the Muslims in the area. The filtering down of language and possible standardisation would heavily favour any French-related dialect immensely so it begs another question of the weight of said favour especially with a non-French domination of the kingdoms European populace assuming French is still a major language force.

This is assuming the European-Arab ratio reaches somewhere around 40-60 or maybe 50-50 early enough for full language development.
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