The roman empire had two main languages, greek and latin. But while latin gave birth to french, portuguese, spanish and italian, greek language is now only spoken in Greece. Why the germanic tribes adopted latin but the slavic tribes did not ?
Anatolians adopted Greek language
>>563655
The Franks and Iberians were massive cucks while The Slavs weren't
This is true to this day
>>563655
Because the West was destroyed and the tribes squatted on its remains, using its legal system, church structure etc.
Slavs destroyed all that they found in their ravages of Pannonia, Thrace, Dalmatia etc. in the 6th and 7th centuries and did not take to Christianity (while the tribes in the west mostly had already been converted while they were outside of the Roman Empire, the Slavs had been too far outside to be converted).
Slavs essentially didn't bother to keep hold of any civilisation that they found since they did not associate Romanitas with their religion. It took many centuries for them to get anywhere near to where the Visigoths, Franks etc. got. Even the illiterate Saxons, Frisians, Jutes and Angles managed to convert quicker and then create unified kingdoms.
>>563696
nice banter
>>563655
They adopted Cyrillic, which was invented by a Byzantine monk, that's gotta count for something
>>563655
>greek language is now only spoken in Greece.
and Cyprus
>>563655
Fun Fact: Syria, the Levant, and Egypt spoke Greek.
Well, only the Ruling Class & Literati desu.
Also Greek is the diplomatic lingo in Middle East. The Sassanids talked to Romans in Greek for example. It was the case even early into the Caliphate until Arabic completely took over.
>>563655
Arabic supplanted Greek after the Muslim conquests.
Arabs and then Turks that's pretty much all there is to that
Who would ever want to?
>>563737
What are you talking about? Of course Slavs converted to Christianity. It didn't happen instantaneously but it started between the 7th and 8th century and conversions started in Kievan Rus in the 10th century, mostly because of the distance.
>Slavs essentially didn't bother to keep hold of any civilisation that they found
Yeah okay.
>>565485
Greek actually sounds nice, especially when compared to how the language of their eastern neighbours sounds
>>566166
I don't know man, I've been around my grandparents when they watch Turkish soap operas, and I've watched The Guns of Navarone, and to tell you the truth they both sound like dogshit.
>>563655
>latin gave birth to french, portuguese, spanish and italian
And Romanian, you huge dingus.
>>563655
Russian is Greek and old Slavic languages love child
>>565517
They didn't, they were too stupid for the Byzantine system. Which is why they would chimp out and start "serb rebellions"
>>567576
>>>/int/
>>567471
Not really.
>>567471
Slavic and Mongolian actually.
>>567576
ayyy
Greek encroached on the largest urban civilizations of human history, Latin encroached on mudhut barbars - yes, they had cities, but a highly primitive and sparsely-populated civilization compared to the East.
You'd probably have seen Egypt and the Levant speak Greek en masse if the ERE lasted longer, but Greek was competing with cultural capital close to its own in Syria and Egypt.
As for the northern Frontier, in the Balkans Latin was actually the dominant Roman tongue north of a certain point, even in the eastern Balkans, and you saw even Latin lands in the West being submerged by filthy barbars along the borders (see: trans-rhine Germany and Flanders, German Switzerland and Austria). Same thing happened in the East.
