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  2. Gothic language - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Codex Argenteus - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Gothic runic inscriptions - Wikipedia

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    German: "target rider" = sure hitter, perhaps a case of wishful thinking), the name either of a warrior, or of the spear itself. It is identified as East Germanic (Gothic) because of the nominative -s (in contrast to Proto-Norse-z). The t and d are closer to the Latin alphabet than to the classical Elder Futhark, as it were ...

  5. East Germanic languages - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Blackletter - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Grammar of the Gothic Language - Wikipedia

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    Grammar of the Gothic Language is a book by Joseph Wright describing the extinct Gothic language, first published in 1910. It includes the language's development from Proto-Indo-European (then known as Indo-Germanic ) and Proto-Germanic ( Primitive Germanic ), and part of Ulfilas 's bible translation.

  8. Jordanes - Wikipedia

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    Jordanes (/ dʒ ɔːr ˈ d eɪ n iː z /; Greek: Ιορδάνης), also written as Jordanis or Jornandes, [a] was a 6th-century Eastern Roman bureaucrat, [b] widely believed to be of Gothic descent, who became a historian later in life. He wrote two works, one on Roman history and the other on the Goths .

  9. Runic inscriptions - Wikipedia

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    Out of about a dozen candidate inscriptions, only three are widely accepted to be of Gothic origin: the gold ring of Pietroassa, bearing a votive inscription, part of a larger treasure found in the Romanian Carpathians, and two spearheads inscribed with what is probably the weapon's name, one found in the Ukrainian Carpathians, and the other in ...