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First, presuming that the Chinese Empire survives past 1911 (somehow), how does butterflying away Sun Yat-Sen and the PRC change Chinese? Would a longer-lasting Qing Dynasty have much affect on the development of Standard Mandarin?

Second, presuming no Bolshevik revolution....what happens to the Russian language without the Soviets taking over? How does Imperial Russian develop? What policies would a Tsarist state follow with regards to language and Russification as it either liberalizes or later implodes?

And third....what does a linguistic map of a Nazi-victory Europe look like? How would Russian fare? Or other Slavic languages? What changes in terms of German? Do the Nazis pursue a Standardization of the German language intended to erase the various dialects? Do Germanic languages get special privileges over Romance languages? What about Euskera and other minority languages?

Just curious.....:eek:
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