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Why did not Italy experience a linguistic shift from Italian Romance dialects in favor of Germanic Lombard?
How could the Germanic Lombard language become the main language of Italy similar to what Turkish is for Anatolia, English for England, Slavic for the Balkan?
If Italy became mostly Lombard speaking how would Latin's role in Western Society be changed, if at all?
Could a portion of Italy become Lombard speaking while the rest stayed Latin? For example the Po Valley becoming Lombard speaking while the rest stays Romance speaking.