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Why is it that places like Gaul/France and Spain/Hispania eventually adopted a form of Latin as their language after being conquered by Rome, but places like Egypt largely retained their Coptic language (until Arab conquest)?

by /u/Spirited-Pause in /r/AskHistorians

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