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- Wilhelm Braune's 'A Gothic Grammar, with selections for reading and a glossary' is a comprehensive guide to the Gothic language, a now-extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths.
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Gothic is an extinct East 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 sizeable text corpus.
In 1560–62 a Flemish diplomat, Augier Ghislain de Busbecq, then serving in Constantinople as the ambassador from Ferdinand I of Austria, collected a number of words and phrases from the Crimean Goths showing that their language was still essentially a form of Gothic.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Gothic is the first Germanic language to be attested in anything other than very short runic inscriptions. Wulfila used a modified Greek alphabet, supplemented with a couple of letters from the Latin and runic alphabets.
• The first Germanic Bible translated from the Greek and the other remains of the Gothic language, with glossary, by Gerhard Hubert Balg (1891) • The Gospel of Saint Mark in Gothic , with grammar & glossary, by Walter Skeat (1882)
May 5, 2020 · The Gothic Language was an East Germanic language spoken by the Goths, a Germanic people who played a major role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of Medieval Europe. It is the earliest Germanic language attested with a sizable corpus, dating back to the 4th century.
Nov 29, 2019 · Wilhelm Braune's 'A Gothic Grammar, with selections for reading and a glossary' is a comprehensive guide to the Gothic language, a now-extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths.
Along with Crimean Gothic, it belongs to the branch known as East Germanic. The bulk of the extant Gothic corpus is a translation of the Bible, of which only a portion remains. The translation is traditionally ascribed to Wulfila, who is credited with inventing the Gothic alphabet.
