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Gothic is an extinct East Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths. ... Gothic has two clitic particles placed in the second position in a sentence, ...
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) has come to define Gothic fiction in the Romantic period. Frontispiece to 1831 edition shown. Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror (primarily in the 20th century), is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting.
Gothic verbs have the most complex conjugation of any attested Germanic language.Most categories reconstructed for the Proto-Germanic verb system are preserved in Gothic. . Knowledge of the Proto-Germanic verb is itself to a large degree based on Gothic, meaning that its reconstruction may be fragmen
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Gothic writing may refer to Writing in a Gothic language; Writing using a Greek and runic based Gothic alphabet; Writing using a Blackletter Gothic script for Latin ...
Gothic is an inflected language, and as such its nouns, pronouns, and adjectives must be declined in order to serve a grammatical function. A set of declined forms of the same word pattern is called a declension. There are five grammatical cases in Gothic with a few traces of an old sixth instrumental case. [citation needed]
Goths or Gothic people, a Germanic people Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths; Gothic alphabet, an alphabet used to write the Gothic language; Gothic (Unicode block) Geats, sometimes called Goths, a large North Germanic tribe who inhabited Götaland
The Gothic language was written in the Gothic alphabet developed by Bishop Ulfilas for his translation of the Bible in the 4th century. [73] Later, Christian priests and monks who spoke and read Latin in addition to their native Germanic varieties began writing the Germanic languages with slightly modified Latin letters.