Conquest creates new language and compound identity in both England and Iran

Evidence

Perhaps a closer parallel would be what happened in England after 1066, the conquest of the Anglo-Saxons by the Normans, and the transformation of the Anglo-Saxon language under the impact of Norman French into what we now call English. There are interesting parallels between the Norman conquest of England and the Arab conquest of Iran—a new language, created by the break­ down and simplification of the old language and the importation of an enormous vocabulary of words from the language of the conquerors; the creation of a new and compound identity, embracing both the conquerors and the conquered. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 282

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels my experience of English absorbing Norman French; connects conceptually to language-contact studies of Arabic in Persian. — connects to: the MOC “The Tongue of Power: When Language Becomes the Battlefield of Empire”