> The lands and tribes they conquered simply used Latin for trade and as a lingua franca. It never became the mother tongue for any of those people. And yet, t

> The lands and tribes they conquered simply used Latin for trade and as a lingua franca. It never became the mother tongue for any of those people. And yet, there are 800 million native speakers of Romance languages ("the modern languages that evolved from Vulgar Latin between the third and eighth centuries") in the world [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages