Hails frithureiks!
 
Nice to see you ! I live in Austria, Vienna. It is my hobby to try to translate
the Wulfila Bible with the help of a dictionary (Köbler). I have read the
grammars of Streitberg and Braune. Colloquial use of gothic is very much limited
by the volume of vocabulary. This phenomenon is similar to latin and a common
problem with extinct languages. Though the volume of latin words is much larger
it still exists a big lack of daily life words. The state of Vatican which is
the only state all over the world with an extinct language as its official
language has some experience in developing new words by deriving them from older
ones or from roots of words, the only way to revive ancient languages. Let´s see
what we can do.
 
Harald




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From: Fredrik <gadrauhts@...>
To: gothic-l@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, June 7, 2009 3:55:03 PM
Subject: [gothic-l] Re: introduction





Háils Harald!

Nice to see you here and especially that you're interested in colloquial use of
gothic. So am I, eventhough I haven't been able to be that much active in using
it or learning it etc. because of my studies. So where are you from and how much
do you know gothic at this point? Some people here have tried to fill out the
gothic vocabulary with non attested words and some words for modern thing such
as car, computer, electricity etc.

Hope you will help completeing the vocabulary.

/Friţureiks

--- In gothic-l@yahoogroup s.com, Harald Schmidt <freihals2000@ ...> wrote:
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> Hails to all !
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> I am new here and want to introduce myself: my name is Harald. My interests
are mainly in gothic grammar, syntax and also using it in daily life, writing
letters etc. I am further interested in gothic laws, belagines, which have not
really been discovered yet for textes like lx romana visigothorum, ed theoderici
etc. contain mainly roman law.
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> but in general I have joined this group to improve my gothic.
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> Harald
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