Meet my conlang, Anglese. This is how I imagine English would look like if it was a Romance language. Basically Romance vocabulary with English spelling rules. I paid close attention to English spelling rules and patterns, studied the vocabulary of Romance languages and Latin made an hypothetical English version of those words. This language is my "what if".
The history of Anglese in an alternate reality: Romans invaded Britain, largely displaced native Celts. The Latin began to change drastically into a British Vulgar Latin. However, the British Vulgar Latin, from which this language evolved, had also massive Germanic influence, after the invasion of Anglo-Saxons and later Vikings as well, which equals to the vocabulary of Germanic origin in English that I did not translate. Then, after the Norman Conquest in 1066 Britannese was influenced by Anglo-Norman/Old French, so a Romance language influencing another Romance language. And so, because they were quite similar to one another, both having Latin as their common ancestor after all, many of their words essentially merged. In 12th-13th century, the Anglo-Saxons slowly merged with Roman, Celtic, Viking a d Norman descendants and adopted their language, making their Early Middle English go extinct. This language would replace English in this alternate reality, being spoken everywhere where English is but Scotland. The Celtic languages would surive as they are. The Creoles based on English are spoken, are replaced by Anglese itself, although usually its more colloquial slang.
Feel free to leave any opinions, suggestions, impressions or even use Anglese itself.
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