Take all the west European languages and how they're littered with loan words from Roman Latin or from French/Spanish/Italian which are descended from Latin. No

Take all the west European languages and how they're littered with loan words from Roman Latin or from French/Spanish/Italian which are descended from Latin. Now imagine if French/Spanish/Italian were all still called Latin and the Roman empire existed into the modern era. That's the influence Sinitic has on East Asian languages. European, Language, Littered, Roman, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, Descended, Imagine, Empire, Existed, Modern, Era, Influence, Sinitic, Asian "Roman" terms in modern day English.