Languages (Differently)

Note: This article is written as a comparison between OTL and the Differently TL.

Between Differently and our timeline, there are major and minor differences in the languages and their distribution throughout the world.

Words and phrases
Some words and phrases in several languages differ.

English
Due to a strong purist movement, several words of Old English origin, which in our timeline fell into disuse, survived and are still widely used in Modern English with the senses listed below. Although not to the point of other Germanic languages, English is slightly less Latinized than in our timeline.

Portuguese
In OTL, Saint Martin of Braga (520–580 AD), wishing to remove Pagan influence, replaced the names of weekdays in the Galician-Portuguese language, which at the time referred to planets whose names are those of Roman gods, by Latin liturgical days. As a result, the modern Portuguese, Galician and Mirandese languages, which descend from Galician-Portuguese, are the only Romance languages with numbered weekdays.

In Differently, Martin of Braga failed to incorporate such a change, resulting in weekdays similar to those of Spanish, Italian, French, Romanian, etc.:

Distribution
In Australia, the predominant language is Dutch instead of English. Alaska, as a federal subject of Russia, has Russian as its most widely spoken language. The region of North Africa and the Middle East has the most significant difference: several different Semitic languages are spoken instead of only Arabic.

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