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Re: CHAT: Visigoths (was: YADPT (D=Dutch))

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Thursday, November 13, 2003, 13:28
Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> Thought: Gothic is East Germanic, while the Götar spoke North Germanic > dialects. This ought to suggest that any common origin goes all the > way back to Common Germanic - when in time would that place us?
Somewhere around the beginning of the Common Era. And certainly Gothic and Old Norse are more alike than either is like any West Germanic language. -- After fixing the Y2K bug in an application: John Cowan WELCOME TO <censored> jcowan@reutershealth.com DATE: MONDAK, JANUARK 1, 1900 http://www.ccil.org/~cowan

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