Gothic
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- Language: Gothic
- Alternate names: -
- SIL-code: Ethnologue:afr
- Language family: Indo-European, Germanic, East
- Number of speakers: Extinct
- Script: Gothic script
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Introduction
Gothic is an extinct Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths. It is known primarily from Codex Argenteus, a 6th century copy of a 4th century Bible translation, and is the only East Germanic language with a sizeable corpus. All others, including Burgundian and Vandalic, are known, if at all, only from proper names that survived in historical accounts.
