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It very much did.
> never mind Europe.
It did that, too, though less tightly.
> The lands and tribes they conquered simply used Latin for trade and as a lingua franca. It never became the mother tongue for any of those people.
And where exactly did the Romance languages that are the mother tongues of much of the area that Rome used to rule come from, then?
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It very much did.
> never mind Europe.
It did that, too, though less tightly.
> The lands and tribes they conquered simply used Latin for trade and as a lingua franca. It never became the mother tongue for any of those people.
And where exactly did the Romance languages that are the mother tongues of much of the area that Rome used to rule come from, then?