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Why did franks ( a west germanic people) adopted roman language when they went to modern day france? Was this because of the controll strength of romans in that country?
Correct ist, the Franks wanted to inherit the title of Roman emperor from Syagrius (? ca. 486/87) and pretended to save the western Roman Empire (and roman culture). Clodwig I. Aegidius proclaimed 476 himself as emperor of west. Around 486/87 Chlodwig I. defeated the last roman weak emperor Syargius and proclaimed the restauration of western romanum. This is his "christian hero legend" of Merowinger. To save the christian latin culture was now his job and he hope for recognition of Emperor title from the Emperor of Byzantium Zeno. But Zeno send Theoderich the great as magister militum per Italia 488 against Odoaker in Italy.
The end of Chlodwigs dream as roman Emporercame with Justinian I, he proclaimed himself as Emporer of Eastern and Western Romanum (Basileus Rhomaion and Byzantium). He makes now greek to the language of his empire, but in Western world (Frankenreich of Chlodwig I. ) the people spoken furthermore vulgar gallian Latin on the street and Latin in the church.
The Church is now splitted in a eastern Church with Byzantine Ritus and a western Church with romanic Ritus.
In the next time is developt the vulgar latin in gallia to a france language of western frankish kingdom.
The key to understand why the franks in West do not spoken germanic is the christian title. Only Latin or Greek was a language of christian church. The merowinger Dynastie was only christian "rex francorum" = Kings.
300 Years later, the Karolinger Karl the Great makes himself with the help from Pope of Rome to a Emporer of Rome after the romanic Ritus. In the contract of Aachen 812 his title was not "
Imperator Romanum" (or greek "Basileus Rhomaion"), his title was "
Romanum gubernans imperium". He was "Protector of Romanum imperium".
In the germanic site, he etablish 813 west german (
thiotisca) as language of Administration, in france and belgica he etablish 813 oldfrance (
rustica lingua romana) as language of Administration. East germanic, old germanic and north germanic was now languages of sclavos (Slavs). For Karl was all slavs include danish peoples Sclavini.
"Et ut easdem omelias quisque aperte transferre studeat in rusticam Romanam linguam aut Thiotiscam, quo facilius cuncti possint intellegere quae dicuntur."
863 or 864 came Kyrill and Method as priest and teacher from Byzantium to Bratislava (romanic Devin). He created from local vulgar latin by Austrian Limes, east germanic or avar language by local population and greek letters a new "slavic" language.
A bit later 868 the pope gave Kyrill the permission to teach the holy bible in his new slavic language. Now chanced all "sclavos duces" to the eastern Church after byzantine Ritus and hunted the Franconian priests out of her duces.
Kyrills Students recruted croatians, bolgars and russia what created more slavic languages under the influence of local population. This was the end of frankish influence in slavic countrys. The slavic dux was now servantes of byzantine patriarch and eastern Church. And Karl and his follower together with other etablished Kings of western europe promoted the western church with the pope of Rome.