Latinisation of the Roman Provinces

Assuming a continuation of relative prosperity how would over centuries a surviving Roman Empire look with the latinisation/romanisation of the languages and cultures of the provinces over the centuries given an above decent Roman world and timeline (for the Romans) with a few maintained parallels of our world. Personally, I'm really enquiring about the Western Provinces but I don't truly mind altogether.

I personally think that there would be a continued growth of the various Vulgar Latins over centuries until all regional languages are pushed over towards extinction around the 11th Century eventually with an Industrial revolution parallel down the road the need for literate workers grows and the Vulgar Latins are standardised or 'proper' Latin is enforced. This assumes heavy parallels in development and such, lacks an insight into the cultures and only really deals with the west but it's a proposition.
 
Well, the best guess is that at some point a unitary standard ("Modern Latin") would emerge out of some common form of Vulgar Latin. It would probably look somewhat similar to Italian or Spanish, but likely retaining more Classical features and possibly an oddly archaic spelling.
 
Standardization of spelling would probably come first, especially with an expanded bureaucracy that seems to be common to Roman survival scenarios. The next step would be large-scale education which would standardize the spoken language—this could come through a religious institution, although that seems like more of a Byzantine development than a Latin one.
 
I think it's fair to say Proper/Roman Latin would be the language of government, nobility, and probably a sort of lingua franca in much of the empire. But for one I do not see Proper Latin staying/becoming the language of every Western Province from the ground up, the distance is too far.

Disregarding the Eastern provinces where languages and settlement are too rooted to change without a complete ethnic and educational genocide; looking to the West I still think we would have some Romance Language continuum at least among the peasant class.

If anything the Italic and French provinces would definitely retain more Latin structures; Italian would prolly never develop, regional dialect would be those of Latin.

France, Spain, and Britain though would be very different from our timeline.

Without Arabic conquest; Spanish would develop in an alien way to what we know as Spanish.

Greater control and assimilation in France and Britain means a dialect akin to Latin with some influences from outside would be a safe bet without going into much detail.

This is all large estimations though since the scope and changes in whatever timeline presented aren't detailed enough to fully comprehend then language evolution.
 
I personally think that there would be a continued growth of the various Vulgar Latins over centuries until all regional languages are pushed over towards extinction around the 11th Century eventually with an Industrial revolution parallel down the road the need for literate workers grows and the Vulgar Latins are standardised or 'proper' Latin is enforced. This assumes heavy parallels in development and such, lacks an insight into the cultures and only really deals with the west but it's a proposition.

It's going to be pretty hard to uproot Celtic languages in parts of Roman Britain, Basque in Spain, or Berber in North Africa, in particular the latter due to geography and the sheer size of the Berber-speaking areas, although probably you'd see more Romanisation than occurred OTL among the Berbers.

I wonder if the Chinese situation, with Mandarin Chinese as the main language yet with vibrant regional languages like Cantonese, would be applicable to an "eternal Rome". The Vulgar Latin that became Eastern Romance, the Vulgar Latin that became British Romance, and the Vulgar Latin that became African Romance were all very different and rapidly diverging from Classical Latin as early as Late Antiquity. The best solution is to write all Romance languages with the same orthography, but have some sort of Mandarin-esque standard to enforce as the main language of government, trade, etc.

Which dialect would you pick to standardise each provincial Vulgar Latin based on, though? Some might be straightforward, like North Africa you can pick Carthage's Vulgar Latin (although the difference between, say, Carthage's and Volubilis's Vulgar Latin was probably pretty wide) as a basis for standardisation but for the Iberian Vulgar Latin, say, there's several choices and probably none of which are 100% perfect. Of course, as history shows, language standardisation is never 100% perfect.

Eastern languages are probably going to end up more Greek influence, but without the mass assimilation to Arabic like OTL the majority of people in the Levant/Egypt will speak Aramaic or Coptic although Greek will continue to be the language of government and the educated class. Maybe Greek will fragment into several languages itself? I can imagine the Greek of Cyrenaica will be almost as different to the Greek of Byzantion as the Latin of Carthage is from the Latin of Rome after a certain point. Some other regional languages like Armenian, Georgian, and maybe Albanian will probably survive too, I'd say, the rest like Isaurian and the remainder of Anatolian languages will likely be assimilated. It's a bit harder to say what will become of languages in the East without knowing what the religious situation would be, since heathen Rome (of any sort) will be different from Christian Rome which will be different from Manichaean Rome.
 
I'm most likely wrong but in a situation where the Western Portion of the Empire is highly prosperous bringing a great degree of interconnectedness a mixing of the various regional Latins could occur creating regional dialects at the least. This would be rectified in a sort of industrial revolution parallel which would see a rise in the need for literate workers which would see the creation of a curriculum including, amongst other things, a standardised form of learnable Latin which would slowly replace the regional dialects like the imposition and education of Tuscan Italian on the populace at the very least functioning like Modern Standard Arabic today with different variants of the language but everyone at the least understanding it.
 
I'm most likely wrong but in a situation where the Western Portion of the Empire is highly prosperous bringing a great degree of interconnectedness a mixing of the various regional Latins could occur creating regional dialects at the least. This would be rectified in a sort of industrial revolution parallel which would see a rise in the need for literate workers which would see the creation of a curriculum including, amongst other things, a standardised form of learnable Latin which would slowly replace the regional dialects like the imposition and education of Tuscan Italian on the populace at the very least functioning like Modern Standard Arabic today with different variants of the language but everyone at the least understanding it.

Modern Standard Arabic might be a better example, since I'm pretty sure the examples I used--Eastern Romance like Dacia, a divergent Western Romance language like British Latin would have become, and Southern Romance (I'm pretty sure African Romance would have evolved into an entire branch of the Romance languages since it was very divergent) like Carthaginian Romance--are far more separate from each other than the various Italian languages (Lombard, Venetian, Sicilian, etc.) which were folded into a standard based on Tuscan Italian. There would be plenty of reasons to learn standard Latin, and the vast majority of Roman citizens would identify themselves as Roman first (or as equally Roman as their provincial identity), but it would be difficult to totally impose the standard Latin of Rome or wherever on the Latin-speaking provinces.
 
Regardless of all the possible different developments depending on the POD, as already said, Arabic is certainly the best parallel. Commoners will speak in different dialects whereas there will always be a Roman acrolect to rule over. Eventually, what we'd probably see is some degree of koineization of Latin. That said, what would happen with the Greek-speaking Rome would mostly depend on the nature of the East/West relations inside the empire.
 
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