Linguistic alt histories

- I wonder how Jutic and Anglic (both West Germanic/ Ingvaeonic) dialects of German would sound like, if these two tribes haven`t invaded Britain and remained on the Cimbric penninsula, instead.*
Of course we need to make sure, that both Jutes and Angles becoming part of a German ("Theodesk") identity and of course part of HRE (or something similar) as well.
Same thing with the Lower Franks understand themselves as "German" and not as Netherlandic.
Maybe even keep eastern Gaul Germanic/ Frankish, also. (Maybe including Paris)

*=Of course Britain would stay either Celtic or Romanic in such a scenario. But I think, more likely is Celtic....or it becomes Pictic (if Pictic is not a Celtic language).


- Stronger Baltic sub-families would be really interesting, as well. Let`s say, when Prussian is Western Baltic and Lithuanian and Latvian are MIDDLE Baltic (instead of named as "Easten Baltic"), it would be really interesting how a hypothetical Eastern Baltic (maybe located in OTL Belarus and/or further east (Smoleńsk region for example)) language would sound like.


- Also very interesting is the question of what if old, very old European languages were actually strong enough to survive like Basque and Georgian, but many more.
 
Less Roman penetration into Northern Europe would create something more Celtic.

Could an American Indian language having more influence, or rather different Native languages surviving be interesting.
 
Asia-related linguistic questions:
1. What would be the language spoken by the Jomon people look like if they were mixed (physically and culturally) with Yayoi without affecting their language?
2. The Ryukyuans remained Austronesian-speaking and invaded northern Taiwan. Would it be affected by the surrounding Formosan languages?
3. What if Jianghuai and Southwest Mandarin reacquired ru sheng (checked tone)?
4. Both Middle and Modern Khmer language retained the distinction between voiced and voiceless consonants like in Old Khmer.
 
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