It seems to me that someone familiar with the various languages -- Gothic, medieval high German, and Yiddish -- should be able to tell fairly easily what the...
Devil's Advocate mode: Apparent similarity isn't always the whole story. Languages relationships can't always be represented by a neat branching family tree....
Aren't most of these languages considered to be of the Germanic language to beging with? I understand that we get the Germanic languages from the Ancient Goth...
Hi! Have you read this. TALES ABOUT JEWISH KHAZARS IN THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE RESOLVE AN OLD DEBATE. During the past two centuries, one of the major controversies...
********************* Hi Tore! I guess there are no evidences of any exodus of Jews from Rhineland, neither narrative nor archaeological. Density of Jewish...
Godana maurgin allaim ! I speak German and have seen Yiddish dictionaries and texts. Whitout taking into account convetional or unconventional theories, my...
Hi fellow lovers of the written language, Does anybody know what the visigoths might have used for the word "the." Spain uses an arabic word for "the" which...
Some words on gotho-khazar relations and jewish diaspora in Crimea in VIII-X cc AD. Since the second half of seventh century when Khazars appeared at the...
A,G. Gertsen Ukraine. Crimea. Simferopol State University Jewish Community of Mangoup According to Archaeological Data Until the creation of external...
******************** Hi Peter! Gothic had definite articles, i.e. analogues to English <the>, but, leaving this item to more competent members of the Gothic-L,...
... ...F.A. Brown specialist m Scandinavian Studies started excavations at Mangoup, looking for the Goths traces.....Brown examined some inscriptions by...
... the sentencing of using the as an article or whatever....oscar ... Hi, I have never succeeded to se definite article before words in Gothic. Indefinite...
... Gothic. ... a ... be ... No, you're right, Ingemar--except that I think the enclitic article (attached to the end of a noun) is a later development in...
... car" ... 1) Here's what Todd B. Krause and Jonathan Slocum have to say about such things in relation to the language of the earliest runic inscriptions in...
... Pardon me: that should have said STRONG adjective with no definite article. ... preposed ... The nouns are different though, so it's not a contrast that...
Hi Llama Nom, Thank you for this and later explanations. It streghtens my confidence a little to be right in that even if I am a very bad linguist when it ...
Vladimir is definitely right: the Spanish definite article, like in all Romanic languages, comes from Latin. The form "el" compared to Italian "il" is...
So, what do we think? Was the use of a definite article in Romance inspired by Germanic? Or vice-versa even? I'm afraid I don't know anything about when the...
********************** Hi Llama Nom! I have to admit that, throwing into the "the" discussion the remark upon inspiration of the Romance definite articles by...
It's correct, indeed. The Romanian definite article has the same origin like those in Western Romanic (i.e. from the Latin demonstrative illus, illa, etc.) but...
... Hi Llama nom, I wonder if not Protogermanic could have lacked definite article and hence Gothic which is closest to PGmc. The Nordic languages as well, ...
... Hi Ingemar, This is something I'd very much like to know more about, the relationship between these three branches of Germanic, and the question of how to...
TWAI HRABNOS ...himma maurgina in gutaniskon gaskeiridata fram þamma fairnjin us Skutanelanda liuþa [1], "The Twa Corbies", þatei in missaleikaim stadim...
Hello, Having finished the Gothic course by Mr. Salo I have written a poem in Gothic (or should one rather use the term Neo-Gothic here?).. That is, at least I...
Hi Vladimir, Nice to meet you. Thanks for taking the time to respond to my questions. I always believed that the word (el)came from the arabic language. It's...
Hi Oscar, Nice to meet you. Thanks for your reply: it's much appreciated. So, (so) and (sa) were used for (the). (So) must have been the masculine and (Sa) the...
Thanks for your reply. It was an answer worth paying for, actually :) They've all been. It was very detailed and it helps me a lot. Written languages are an...
Hi Farncisc, Nice to meet you. Thanks for your input. It helps me out a lot. Now I'm understanding the fact that it's just a coincidence that the Arabic "El"...
