Gothic language - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Gothic Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Language - Phonetic And Phonological System
It is possible to determine more or less exactly how the Gothic of Ulfilas was pronounced, primarily through comparative phonetic reconst...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gothic Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Language - Phonetic And Phonological System
In order to raise legibility and contrary to standard linguistic conventions, this article contains phonological transcriptions between s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Codex Argenteus: Encyclopedia - Codex Argenteus
The Codex Argenteus (or "Silver Bible") is a 6th century manuscript, originally containing bishop Ulfilas's 4th century translation of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Codex Argenteus: Encyclopedia Ii - Codex Argenteus - History
Codex Argenteus - Origin. The tribes we consider Gothic were nominally Arians during the period of time when Ulfilas translated the Chr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goths: Encyclopedia Ii - Goths - Origins
Explaining the origins of the Goths, Jordanes recounted: The same mighty sea has also in its arctic region, that is in the north, a grea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goths: Encyclopedia Ii - Goths - Origins
Explaining the origins of the Goths, Jordanes recounted: The same mighty sea has also in its arctic region, that is in the north, a grea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gothic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Alphabet - The Letters
Middle Bronze Age 19-15th c. BC Proto-Canaanite 14th c. BC Ugaritic 13th c. BC Phoenician 11th c. BC Samaritan 6th c. BC Aramaic 9th c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goths: Encyclopedia Ii - Goths - Symbolic Meaning
In Medieval and Modern Spain, the Visigoths were thought to be the origin of the Spanish nobility (compare Gobineau for a similar French ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goths: Encyclopedia Ii - Goths - History
Our only source for early Gothic history is Jordanes' Getica, (published 551), a condensation of the lost twelve-volume history of the Go...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ulfilas: Encyclopedia - Ulfilas
Ulfilas or Wulfila (perhaps meaning "little wolf") (c. 310 - 383), bishop, missionary, and translator, was a Goth or half-Goth who had sp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goths: Encyclopedia Ii - Goths - History
From Scandinavia, the Goths migrated and set up a kingdom in Scythia ( modern-day Ukraine and Belarus). In the third century, the tribe s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bible Translations: Encyclopedia - Bible Translations
The Bible has been translated into many languages. The Jewish Tanakh (almost identical to the Protestant Old Testament) was originally wr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goths: Encyclopedia Ii - Goths - Symbolic Meaning
In Medieval and Modern Spain, the Visigoths were thought to be the origin of the Spanish nobility (compare Gobineau for a similar French ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Peoples: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Peoples - History
Germanic peoples - Origin. Regarding the question of ethnic origins, evidence developed by both archaeologists and linguists suggests t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Franciscus Junius The Younger: Encyclopedia Ii - Franciscus Junius The Younger - Works
Junius devoted himself to the study of Anglo-Saxon, and afterwards of the cognate old Teutonic languages. His work, while intrinsically v...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Languages - Classification
Note that divisions between subfamilies of Germanic are rarely precisely defined; most form continuous clines, with adjacent dialects bei...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bible Translations: Encyclopedia Ii - Bible Translations - External Link
English. Main article(s): English translations of the Bible Esperanto. The initiator of Esperanto, L. L. Zamenhof translated the en...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Swedish Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Swedish Literature - Old Swedish
As Swedish evolved from Old Norse in the 13th century, we can begin say that Swedish Literature began to develop as an independent body o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Peoples: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Peoples - History
Germanic peoples - Origin. Regarding the question of ethnic origins, evidence developed by both archaeologists and linguists suggests t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Peoples: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Peoples - Culture
See Germanic mythology, Germanic paganism, Migration Period art The Germanic tribes were each politically independent, under a hereditary...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Swedish Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Swedish Literature - Eighteenth Century
In the eighteenth century, the Swedish language and literature solidified and matured and the period of 1750 to around 1880 is called Lat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Languages - Vocabulary Comparison
Several of the terms in the table below have had semantic drift. For example, the form 'Sterben' and other terms for 'die' are cognate wi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Peoples: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Peoples - Classification
The concept of "Germanic" as a distinct ethnic identity was hinted at by the early Greek geographer Strabo [1], who distinguished a barba...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Languages - Vocabulary Comparison
Several of the terms in the table below have had semantic drift. For example, the form 'Sterben' and other terms for 'die' are cognate wi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Peoples: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Peoples - Classification
The concept of "Germanic" as a distinct ethnic identity was hinted at by the early Greek geographer Strabo [1], who distinguished a barba...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Peoples: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Peoples - Classification
The concept of "Germanic" as a distinct ethnic identity was hinted at by the early Greek geographer Strabo [1], who distinguished a barba...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Peoples: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Peoples - Etymology Of German
Germani is thought to be the Celtic name for the Germanic tribes: the tribes themselves never used the word. There is also a Latin adject...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Languages - Writing
Our earliest evidence of Germanic is from names, recorded in the 1st century by Tacitus, and in a single instance in the 2nd century BC, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Peoples: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Peoples - Culture
See Germanic mythology, Germanic paganism, Migration Period art The Germanic tribes were each politically independent, under a hereditary...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Peoples: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Peoples - Etymology Of Germani
Latin Germani is first used by Julius Caesar, and is thought to be a loan from the Celtic name for the Germanic tribes: the word is an ex...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Franciscus Junius The Younger: Encyclopedia Ii - Franciscus Junius The Younger - Life
Junius was born in Heidelberg, but brought up at Leiden in The Netherlands: his father, also called Franciscus Junius, was appointed prof...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Languages - History
All Germanic languages are thought to be descended from a hypothetical Proto-Germanic, united by their having been subjected to the sound...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gothic Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Language - Gothic Compared To Other Germanic Languages
Gothic language - Gothic and Old Norse. The Goths had a tradition of a Scandinavian origin, and there are linguistic similarities with ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gothic Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Language - Morphology
Gothic language - Nouns. Gothic preserves many archaic Indo-European features that are not always present in modern Germanic languages,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gothic Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Language - Alphabet
See Gothic alphabet. Ulfilas' Gothic, as well as that of the Skeireins and various other manuscripts, was written using an alphabet that ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gothic Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Language - Alphabet
See Gothic alphabet. Ulfilas' Gothic, as well as that of the Skeireins and various other manuscripts, was written using an alphabet that ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gothic Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Language - Documents In Gothic
There are only a few surviving documents in Gothic, not enough to completely reconstruct the language. The largest body of surviving doc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gothic Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Language - Morphology
Gothic language - Nouns. Gothic preserves many archaic Indo-European features that are not always present in modern Germanic languages,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gothic Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Language - Gothic Compared To Other Germanic Languages
Gothic language - Gothic and Old Norse. The Goths had a tradition of a Scandinavian origin, and there are linguistic similarities with ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gothic Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Language - Documents In Gothic
There are only a few surviving documents in Gothic, not enough to completely reconstruct the language. The largest body of surviving doc...   » Read the article