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Why did Classical Arabic stay somewhat intelligible for modern Arabic speakers while the Romance languages diverged from Latin? Why did Latin not influence the Romance languages to stay conservative like Classical Arabic influenced the Arabic varieties?

by /u/DaDerpyDude in /r/AskHistorians

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