Titus_Pullo
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If the western Roman Empire had survived atleast as long as the Eastern Roman Empire in otl, how might Latin have developed? Would it still have evolved into modern Italian as we know it?
If the western Roman Empire had survived atleast as long as the Eastern Roman Empire in otl, how might Latin have developed? Would it still have evolved into modern Italian as we know it?
Or something similar to it, yeah. It depends on how you want it to survive, like are there still Germanic incursions into Brittania and Gaul? Arab invasion of Africa, Mauretania, Sicilia and Hispania?
Yes, the Roman Empire will experience simillar ressurgence, invasions, decline, recovery, decline recovery again, shrinking and finally fall in the 15th century mirroring the eastern empire.
You'll end up with a slightly varied Italian then. Maybe some more Arabic and Greek loan words.
If the western Roman Empire had survived atleast as long as the Eastern Roman Empire in otl, how might Latin have developed? Would it still have evolved into modern Italian as we know it?
Literary Latin, the language that the Empire was governed in, will develop far more slowly than it did IOTL without a literate governing class to hold it together. In a surviving Roman West, I see no reason why the literate classes wouldn't continue to read, write, and speak like Cicero and Virgil, as they did IOTL in the Late Antique Empire.