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Are there any alt history scenarios here involving different ways language could have evolved? One example, by someone who is clearly steeped enough in the lingo to know what OTL and ATL mean, is Alternese: conlanger Justin B Rye wrote a TL in which the Norman invasion of England failed, and focused on how English would've evolved differently. (It turns out that the big changes - loss of inflection, and the Great Vowel Shift - would've happened anyway.)

Some examples, of various levels of seriousness and depth:

1. In my Anglo-French TL, English doesn't change much, since it was heavily influenced by French in OTL as well. But as the Anglo-French royal court speaks English from the early 16c until the mid-17c, French becomes heavily influenced by English. I don't spell it out in the TL, but French adopts the English approximant R and not the Parisian uvular R, and this also influences Dutch. Elsewhere in the timeline, Occitan and Lombard survive as official regional languages (and maintain their rolled Rs).

2. If there's a TL in which the Eastern Roman Empire successfully reconquered the West under Justinian, then it would be interesting to look at the evolution of the Romance languages. If Byzantium imposes Greek then there's likely to be not much change, but if it restores Latin, then the split of Vulgar Latin into the Romance languages would happen very differently, and is probably going to look more like OTL's Arabic diglossia.

3. This is ASB, but I'm fascinated by this map, with reversed continents, as in XKCD but taking map projections into account. How would the Japanese language look with European rather than Chinese influence? What about the Austronesian languages, assuming they even exist? Semitic languages could not exist, since Egypt and the Levant would be at opposite ends of the world; what kind of societies would we find there instead?

4. Is there any realistic scenario in which the Mongol Empire imposed its language on the people it conquered, so that now they'd be speaking daughter languages with 800 years of divergent evolution?
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