What Happened to Britain's Romance Language?

France, Spain, and Italy speak Romance languages because they were a part of the Roman Empire. Why doesn't Britain speak one, then?

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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/Unit...

[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...

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...

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Based on Jones & Mattingly's Atlas of Roman Britain CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

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By Anglo-Saxon Village re-construction, West Stow by Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

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