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• When the Vikings invaded, the people of Britain did not adopt the Swedish or Norwegian languages.
• Similarly, when the Norman French invaded Britain in 1066, French became the language of the kings and the court in Britain. The first few kings of England, for example, did not even speak English! They spoke French. Yet despite this pressure, the people of Britain never spoke the French language, even though that French influence lasted for literally hundreds of years.
• Many other examples around the world could be brought forth to show that the army of one country invading another country, and ruling over it for a period of decades or even hundreds of years, rarely if ever causes the ordinary people to voluntarily and naturally adopt the language of the invading foreigners. Overturning one language and replacing it with another is just too complex a process, and it takes too long.