--- John Cowan skrzypszy:
> > Looking at Gothic texts, I'm getting the impression that it's a lot further
> > from English than a North Germanic language would be.
>
> Well, it's also in an archaic state, much older than Old English or Old
> Norse. If East Germanic had modern descendants, they would probably look
> very different from Wulfila's Gothic.
Yes. Those fragments of Crimean Gothic that we know look pretty much like a
modern Germanic language.
Jan
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