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Re: More Gothic text

From:Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 1, 2003, 8:22
 --- 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 ===== "Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones __________________________________________________ Yahoo! Plus For a better Internet experience http://www.yahoo.co.uk/btoffer

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