#English to old norse online translator series

the Goths left no clear written or archaeological records which may be used to pinpoint their location.

Precise location of the Gothic homeland is difficult for two principal reasons: Gothic may have survived near the Black Sea, though in altered form, until at least the 16th century as a nonliterary language now termed Crimean Gothic. Aside from a few other remains, however, this period furnishes the only remains of the Gothic language. The primary source of linguistic data for the Gothic language is what remains of a translation of the Bible made sometime in the 4th century AD.

Other languages presumed to have belonged to this group, such as Vandalic, have left no written records.

The language itself belongs to what is termed the East Germanic branch of languages, and is in fact the sole documented survivor of the branch.

The only linguistic remnants of Germanic peoples which antedate Gothic remains are some of the Runic inscriptions, with which the Gothic language shares not a few characteristics because of its general linguistic conservatism. Gothic is the language of the earliest literary documents of the Germanic peoples as a whole.

#English to old norse online translator series

Gothic Online Series Introduction Todd B.

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