What Happened to Britain's Romance Language?

Fire of Learning • April 12, 2025

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France, Spain, and Italy speak Romance languages because they were a part of the Roman Empire. Why doesn't Britain speak one, then? Patreon: www.patreon.com/fireoflearning The following music performed by Kevin Macleod Available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. Download available at incompetech.com Midnight Tale Celtic Impulse Pippin the Hunchback Moorland Teller of the Tales Skye Cuillin Napoleon and India Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz7KLB5FtXg Cryptids of Australia Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtESyF_n-mw Works Cited [1] Hollister, C. Warren. “The Making of England: 55 BC - 1399”. DC Heath and Publishing, 1966. [2] Schama, Simon. “A History of Britain 1: 3000 BC - AD 1603: At the Edge of the World?” BBC Worldwide LTD, 2000. [3] Hastings, Margaret et al. “United Kingdom”. Encyclopedia Britannica, britannica.com, History. https://www.britannica.com/place/United-Kingdom/Ancient-Britain [5] Higham, Nicholas J. and Martin J. Ryan. “The Anglo-Saxon World.” Yale University Press, 2013. Pp. 109-111. [6] B Ward-Perkins. “Why did the Anglo-Saxons not become more British?”. The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 462, June 2000, Pages 513–533, [7] Charles-Edwards, Thomas M. “Wales and the Britons, 350-1064”. Oxford University Press, 2012. pg.75 Picture Attributions By Fobos92 - Yuri B. Koryakov, Atlas of Romance languages, Moscow 2001, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39658946 By Own work, Andras Bereznay, 2005 - Own work, Andras Bereznay, 2005; Bereznay, András (2011) Erdély történetének atlasza [Atlas of the History of Transylvania], Méry Ratio, p. 63 ISBN: 978-80-89286-45-4., CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=73890646 By Dokyundokyundokyun - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=73473904 By mbartelsm - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=86531831 By Stefanik - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68927321 By Photo: Myrabella / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33248117 By Ziko-C (Own work), CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3533575 By Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany - Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=65370195 Based on Jones & Mattingly's Atlas of Roman Britain CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11655886 Based on Jones & Mattingly's Atlas of Roman Britain CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11817590 By Jim Champion - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1506737 By Anglo-Saxon Village re-construction, West Stow by Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=149956248 By User:Midnightblueowl, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38559494 By Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35323216