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> How else would you end up with Latin dialects spoken over a range from Portugal to the Black Sea? Same way we ended with almost everyone in Ireland speaking
by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> How else would you end up with Latin dialects spoken over a range from Portugal to the Black Sea?
Same way we ended with almost everyone in Ireland speaking English as their main language?
violent conquest, followed by a brutal subjugation and a cultural genocide.
- InitialLastName 3y agoSure, but also (and corollary to the first three) "leaving people behind in power who speak English".