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What if Latin hadn't risen as the language of the Roman Empire, and Greek had been the status-lect and the ordinary-lect up until the end of Latin-as-a-living-language? How would the Romance languages have turned out, assuming similar phonetic and semantic drift took place as "here"?
I don't have a Classical Greek lexicon to hand, nor a comprehensive treatment of the sound changes, otherwise I'd rustle up a few examples.
Any takers? Paul