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Gothic𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌶𐌳𐌰 |
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Gothic is an extinct Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths. It is known primarily from the Codex Argenteus, a 6th-century
copy of a 4th-century Bible translation, and is the only East Germanic language with a sizable text corpus. All others, including
Burgundian and Vandalic, are known, if at all, only from proper names that survived in historical accounts, and from loan-words
in other languages such as Portuguese, Spanish and French. As a Germanic language, Gothic is a part of the Indo-European language
family. It is the earliest Germanic language that is attested in any sizable texts, but lacks any modern descendants. The
oldest documents in Gothic date back to the 4th century. The language was in decline by the mid-6th century, due, in part,
to the military defeat of the Goths at the hands of the Franks, the elimination of the Goths in Italy, and geographic isolation
(in Spain the Gothic language lost its last and probably already declining function as a church language when the Visigoths
converted to Catholicism in 589). The language survived as a domestic language in the Iberian peninsula (modern Spain and
Portugal) as late as the 8th century, and in the lower Danube area and in isolated mountain regions in Crimea apparently as
late as the early 9th century. Gothic-seeming terms found in later (post-9th century) manuscripts may not belong to the same
language. The existence of such early attested corpora makes it a language of considerable interest in comparative linguistics. |
Names (more)[af] Goties[ar] القوطية [an] Idioma gotico [az] gotça [bn] গথিক [bs] gotski [br] Goteg [bg] Готски език [ca] Llengua gòtica [cs] Gótština [kw] Gothek [cy] Gotheg [da] Gotisk [de] Gotisch [el] Γοτθικά [en] Gothic language [eo] Gota lingvo [et] Gooti keel [eu] Gotiko [fa] زبان گوتیک [fi] Gootin kieli [fr] Gotique [fy] Goatysk [gl] Lingua gótica [gu] ગોથિક [sh] Gotski jezik [he] גותית [hi] गॉथिक [hr] Gotski jezik [hu] Gót nyelv [id] Bahasa Gotik [is] gotneska [it] Lingua gotica [ja] ゴート語 [kn] ಗೋಥಿಕ್ [ks] گوتھِک [kv] Гот кыв [ko] 고트어 [lo] ກອດຮິກ [la] Lingua Gothica [lv] Gotu valoda [lt] Gotų kalba [ml] ഗോഥിക്ക് [mr] गॉथिक [mk] Готски јазик [mt] Gotiku [nl] Gothisch [nn] Gotisk [nb] gotisk [no] Gotisk [or] ଗୋଥିକ୍ [pl] Język gocki [pt] Língua gótica [rm] gotic [ro] Limba gotică [ru] Готский язык [sk] Gótčina [sl] Gotščina [es] Idioma gótico [sr] Готски језик [sv] Gotiska [ta] கோதிக் மொழி [te] గోథిక్ [th] โกธิก [tr] Gotça [uk] Готська мова [vi] Tiếng Gô-tích [zh] 哥德語 |
Language type : Ancient
Technical notes
This page is providing structured data for the language Gothic. |
ISO 639 CodesISO 639-2B : gotISO 639-2T : got ISO 639-3 : got Linked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/gothttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:got http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/got More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: gotFreebase ISO 639-3 : got GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |