Gothic writing

extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths

Jordanes (; Greek: Ιορδάνης), also written as Jordanis or Jornandes, was a 6th-century Eastern Roman bureaucrat, of Gothic descent, who became a historian later in life.

unicameral alphabet created in the 4th century by Ulfilas for the purpose of translating the Bible to the Gothic language

thumb|upright=2|The title of the Getica as it appears in a 9th-century manuscript of Lorsch Abbey now in the [[Vatican Library]] De origine actibusque Getarum (The Origin and Deeds of the Getae), commonly abbreviated Getica (), written in Late Latin by Jordanes in or shortly after 551 AD, claims to be a summary of a voluminous account by Cassiodorus of the origin and history of the Gothic people, which is now lost. However, the extent to which Jordanes actually used the work of Cassiodorus is unknown. It is significant as the only remaining contemporaneous resource that gives an extended accou

thumb|100px|Form of the Gothic letter|class=skin-invert-image thumb|right|Some words with Hwair, in Joseph Wright (linguist)|Joseph Wright's [[Grammar of the Gothic Language (1910)|class=skin-invert-image]] Hwair (also , , ) is the name of , the Gothic letter expressing the or sound (reflected in English by the inverted wh-spelling for ). Hwair is also the name of the Latin ligature (capital ) used to transcribe Gothic.

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elder Futhark writings