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The language was in decline by the mid-sixth century, partly because of 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 from Arianism ...
Not only were blackletter forms called Gothic script, but any other seemingly barbarian script, such as Visigothic, Beneventan, and Merovingian, were also labeled Gothic. This in contrast to Carolingian minuscule , a highly legible script which the humanists called littera antiqua ("the ancient letter"), wrongly believing that it was the script ...
The Gothic alphabet is an alphabet for writing the Gothic language. It was developed in the 4th century AD by Ulfilas (or Wulfila), a Gothic preacher of Cappadocian Greek descent, for the purpose of translating the Bible. [a] The alphabet essentially uses uncial forms of the Greek alphabet, with a few additional letters to express Gothic ...
The Gothic language is the Germanic language with the earliest attestation (the 4th century), [215] [171] and the only East Germanic language documented in more than proper names, short phrases that survived in historical accounts, and loan-words in other languages, making it a language of great interest in comparative linguistics.
The only East Germanic language of which texts are known is Gothic, although a word list and some short sentences survive from the debatedly-related Crimean Gothic. Other East Germanic languages include Vandalic and Burgundian, though the only remnants of these languages are in the form of isolated words and short phrases.
Gothic alphabet, the Greek-derived writing system of the Gothic language; Sans-serif, or gothic, a typographical style without serif decorations. In typography, this is the meaning usually associated with the term gothic type, for example Century Gothic. East Asian Gothic typeface, a Chinese, Japanese or Korean typographical style without ...
In his book Vulcanius published two chapters about the Gothic language which contained four fragments of the Gothic New Testament: the Ave Maria (Luke I.28 and 42), the Lord's Prayer (Matt. VI.9-13), the Magnificat (Luke I.46-55) and the Song of Simeon (Luke II.29-32), and consistently gave first the Latin translation, then the Gothic in Gothic ...
The best known example of such a similarity is that Gothic and Gutnish called both adult and young sheep lamb. [ citation needed ] The Old Norse diphthong au (e.g. auga "eye") remained in Old Gutnish and Old West Norse, while in Old East Norse – except for peripheral dialects – it evolved into the monophthong ǿ , i.e. a long version of ø .