Plausible Romance languages in non-Romance areas?

A Kingdom of Jerusalem could also generate an interesting new romance language.
I had an idea for a conlang like this once. It was an offshoot of Old French and/or Sabir with a large Arabic influence. I called it Watramari from outremer

some Watramari vocabulary
cheval horse
wasel bird
sîl sky
asad lion
nûr light

werra to ask for something

il baillmi he gave [it] to me
 

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Would it be possible to get a romance language develop in China somewhere, as a hybrid or pidgin or something similar?
 
Would Norman French completely replacing Old English and stunting the development of Middle and Modern English count if it leads to an England that only speaks Norman French?
 

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As a native speaker of Sicilian, a Romance language with a lot of Greek in it from two separate periods of Greek influence on the development of the language, I'm very skeptical about how much a Romance language will take from Greek phonologically.

In terms of vocabulary, Sicilian for example takes a lot from Greek, but I can't see Greek say, turning the shift from velars before front vowels to post-alveolars/palatals into velar *fricatives instead. I can see it preventing the change all together though, since Standard Greek seems to have retained velar stops before front and mid vowels. The aforementioned shift is absent in Sardinian and Dalmatian...

For a surviving, vibrant African Romance language (there were probably a lot of African Romance languages though, considering the ground to cover), I think a POD after the collapse of the Roman Empire that prevents the birth of Islam. The reason that Arabic has spread so vastly over the Muslim world is because the Qur'an for many centuries was not translated out of the original Arabic so that meaning was not lost (unlike the Bible, lol). If people wanted to be Muslim, which is a faith that arguably takes up a considerable amount of your daily life when compared to Medieval Christianity (praying five times a day), then you had to speak Arabic. I have nothing against Muslims, but their religion has been responsible for a significant amount of language death and suppression because of this. If you prevent a religion like this from arising, then there's no reason that African Romance wouldn't survive in my opinion.

Panonian Romance was also still around probably until the Magyars settled in Europe proper. You could prevent that from happening as well. It's probably a little more plausible than preventing a Saxon invasion of England, considering the differing motivations.

EDIT: I don't know about a Romance language in China, but there were a group of Indo-European languages spoken in Western China called Tocharian languages. Perhaps you could prevent their extinction somehow? I'm really not that familiar with the people that spoke them or why they went extinct though. Sogdian languages also represent a very interesting branch of the Iranian family that is only represented by Yaghnobi today.
 
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Would it be possible to get a romance language develop in China somewhere, as a hybrid or pidgin or something similar?
I played with the idea of a Sino-Romance language descended from the lost legions after the battle of Carrhae.

I have nothing against Muslims, but their religion has been responsible for a significant amount of language death and suppression because of this. If you prevent a religion like this from arising, then there's no reason that African Romance wouldn't survive in my opinion.
Not really, the only places where Arabic replaced the local languages was where related Afro-Asiatic languages were spoken (Berber in the Maghreb, Coptic in Egypt and Aramaic in the Middle East). Persian, Urdu and Indonesian survived quite well long after their speakers converted to Islam.

African Romance was mainly confined to the cities, while the majority in the countryside spoke Berber. When the Muslims came it changed the dynamic and encouraged the country dwellers to learn Arabic, something made easier by the face that Berber and Arabic are more closely related than Berber and Latin. Without Islam would the country people learn Romance, probably eventually, but it would be much slower, and with some kind of diglossia.
 
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