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Gothic
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extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
Gothic was an extinct language spoken by the Goths, a Germanic people of ancient and medieval Europe. It matters to scholars because it is the oldest known Germanic language with surviving written records, making it invaluable for understanding how Germanic languages evolved.
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- Instance of
- extinct language
- Subclass of
- East Germanic
- Has part
- Crimean Gothic
- Country
- Russia
- Located in
- Balkans
- Image
- Gothic alphabet.png
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- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Ukraine
- writing system
- runic script
- topic's main category
- Category:Gothic language
- Wikimedia language code
- got
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 0
- Commons category
- Gothic language
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
- linguistic typology
- fusional language
- P10369
- Paul Morand
- indigenous to
- Balkans
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 0800-00-00
- P13311
- Galapagos Islands
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Expansion of early Germanic tribes into previously mostly Celtic Central Europe: Settlements before 750 BC
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