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Throughout most of the former Western Roman Empire (i.e. Italy, Gaul, Iberia), the new 'barbarian' rulers ended up speaking Latin and its variations. Why and how did Germanic languages take over in England, rather than the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes adopting Latin or perhaps Britonnic?

by /u/EnclavedMicrostate in /r/AskHistorians

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