survival of gaulish or norican language ?

well, i mean would it be possible if the province of noricum would keep its language and not be romanized such as in OTL.While it is part of the roman empire, it has much more autonomy and can continue its culture with less influence of the romans.
 
Gaulish sort of lives on through some Celtic, but that's stretching it alot. As to Noric, I dunno. You'd have to have weaker Romans I'd suppose.
 
Gaulish sort of lives on through some Celtic, but that's stretching it alot. As to Noric, I dunno. You'd have to have weaker Romans I'd suppose.

It is to note that there is no living descendant of Gaulish, the whole branch - the celtic spoken in the french region of Bretagne BTW is related to Welsh and so of another branch of the familly - their ancestors came around the fall of Rome to what is Bretagne, for some reasons that is still not clear I think...
 
It is to note that there is no living descendant of Gaulish, the whole branch - the celtic spoken in the french region of Bretagne BTW is related to Welsh and so of another branch of the familly - their ancestors came around the fall of Rome to what is Bretagne, for some reasons that is still not clear I think...

I think it's actually more closely related to Cornish.
IIRC they left Britain for Brittany because of the Saxons.
 
You could have the a group of Barbarians who take over in Northern Gaul picking Gaulish as their official language instead of either Latin of their own, likely Germanic, language, but that's pushing it. I hardly see any serious reason for them to do so, unless you can engineer some sort of religion involved. Maybe a divergent branch of Christianity that uses Gaulish (as the language of peasants opposed to dominated Latin) and the invaders have some reason to adopt it.
This might have fascinating consequences since I assume such a faith would have a social outlook largely different from the official "Catholic" one.
You also should considering having a ruling group other than the Franks, with even lesser numbers and no population base in firmly Germanic-speaking area. This in turn makes the whole idea even less likely.
Norican has even lesser chances unless your POD is in Roman times.
 
I think that Norican and Gaulish were very similar languages, the gaulish language was also spoken there too.
 
so it would not be possible that Austria would speak a celtic instead of a germanic language ? i am not sure when exactly gaulish became extinct, but it was after the 6th century. so maybe a Austira which stays celtic is indeed possible ?
 
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so it would not be possible that Austria would speak a celtic instead of a germanic language ? i am not sure when exactly gaulish became extinct, but it was after the 6th century. so maybe a Austira which stays celtic is indeed possible ?

For some reasons, I see Swissterland as a possibility, as it is, well, Swissterland as we know it now, and it have the gaulish(?) Helvetii(?) tribes there in a distant past...
 
I would be posable. There is some evidence that in the southern German speaking areas the languages went from Gaulish to German. Stall the Germans farther north and have a Gaulish language revival such as Welsh had.
 
It would help if Noricum wont get romanized, or atleast to a smaller extent, maybe keeping the region bilingual instead of assimilating they natives to the latin language, with latin being speaken and understood by the aristrocracy, but the majority of the people still speaking norish. In this timeline, Noricum might be a part of the Roman empire later, OTL it became part of the Roman empire when claudius became emperor, somehow butterflying him away, and another emperor might not incorporate Noricum that soon. combine that with a earlier collaps of the roman empire and the norican language could survive. Would that be possible ?
But i wonder what influence a earlier collaps could have on christanity. maybwe ther woulc be more different churche sinstead of roman catholic, so there would be a norican church, a french church etc ?
 
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