Romance speaking state/area in modern day china

Very easy. Hong Kong is considered part of China and Taiwan is considered to be China.

Have the Spanish or Portuguese colonize Taiwan or maybe Hainan and impose a Romance language there. I doubt it would have a lot of speakers but maybe a creole language pops up that's based on a Romance language like in the Philipines.
 
In effect, this has already occured in real life, vis-à-vis Macao, which was Portuguese before 1999, and where there is still a significant Portuguese-speaking community.
 
Patuá was once well-spoken throughout Macau colony when it was owned by the Portuguese. It was basically a Romance language that borrowed a ton of Cantonese lexicon and grammar.

If you have Macau keep the colony for longer or encourage the use of Patuá it could very easily end up as a second or third language for most people (compare to African states where Creole languages have become lingua franca between many different ethnicities).

However, if you're thinking way back, to Roman times I think it's...hard, to say the least. Greek kingdoms flourished in India for hundreds of years and Greek was actually spoken there (many of Ashoka's edicts were translated into Greek) but after awhile it just died out. Unless a massive contingent of Romans were able to settle down and colonize a viable area it's hard to see a Romance language emerging. But then, it's also hard to see how the Romanians managed to keep Romance alive there so I dunno.
 
Patuá was once well-spoken throughout Macau colony when it was owned by the Portuguese. It was basically a Romance language that borrowed a ton of Cantonese lexicon and grammar.

If you have Macau keep the colony for longer or encourage the use of Patuá it could very easily end up as a second or third language for most people (compare to African states where Creole languages have become lingua franca between many different ethnicities).

However, if you're thinking way back, to Roman times I think it's...hard, to say the least. Greek kingdoms flourished in India for hundreds of years and Greek was actually spoken there (many of Ashoka's edicts were translated into Greek) but after awhile it just died out. Unless a massive contingent of Romans were able to settle down and colonize a viable area it's hard to see a Romance language emerging. But then, it's also hard to see how the Romanians managed to keep Romance alive there so I dunno.

The Romanians were a special case :D

Best chance is to have Macau become permanently attached to Portugal.
 
Sa'id Mohammed said:
The Romanians were a special case

Heh. It's definitely hard to rationalize how a Romance language would survive in modern China certainly. Many Romance languages could barely survive in Europe.
 
Patuá was once well-spoken throughout Macau colony when it was owned by the Portuguese. It was basically a Romance language that borrowed a ton of Cantonese lexicon and grammar.

If you have Macau keep the colony for longer or encourage the use of Patuá it could very easily end up as a second or third language for most people (compare to African states where Creole languages have become lingua franca between many different ethnicities).

However, if you're thinking way back, to Roman times I think it's...hard, to say the least. Greek kingdoms flourished in India for hundreds of years and Greek was actually spoken there (many of Ashoka's edicts were translated into Greek) but after awhile it just died out. Unless a massive contingent of Romans were able to settle down and colonize a viable area it's hard to see a Romance language emerging. But then, it's also hard to see how the Romanians managed to keep Romance alive there so I dunno.
Not in Macau but in Uyghuristan as a linguistic enclave.
 
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