The myth of Anglo-Saxon cleansing

[M. Demetrius]

No, I rambled as usual, you are correct few were forced to speak Latin, and Greek was the language of the educated, but how many place names in, say, Britain aren't better known by their Latinized names? And for the most part, the tribe names we have, Brigantii, Dumnonii, etc., were Latinized Brittonic tribe names...even many of the people, etc. So whether they, themselves were forced to learn to speak Latin isn't really what I meant...it's that the Latin replaced their cultural languages, for practical purposes.

Aquincum? Numantia? Londinium? Cisalpine Gaul? See what I mean? All those places had names of their own before being Roman provinces. Most of those names are lost now, and only the language of the conqueror remains.

Or else I'm just wrong. It happens.