[gothic-l] Newbie: textbooks; Gothic separating from Common Germanic (1) The most accessible textbook-like resource in English would be Bennett's "An Introduction to the Gothic Language." It has some linguistic lessons and a lexicon as well as graded

[mcarver at CSULB.EDU]

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(1) The most accessible textbook-like resource in English would likely
be Bennett's "An Introduction to the Gothic Language." It has some
linguistic lessons and a lexicon as well as graded readings.

(3) The diacritics were added later. The diaresis, however, which
appears over word- and syllable-initial i's is an invention of
Wulfila.

(4) The usual way to represent Gothic diacritics is by a following
apostrophe, I believe. However, the accents are not always used and
usually not necessary, much like the macrons of Latin. I admit to
occasional absent-minded employment of high-order characters, esp.
thorn.

Ansts jah gawairþi, ;)

Matþaius


> (1) Can you recommend a good Gothic textbook and full vocabulary for
> English-speakers? I live in Manchester in England.

>
> (3) The diacriic acutes often written above "au" and "ai" in Gothic:
> are they in Wulfila's spelling?; or were they added by modern
> scholars like the macrons often seen in printed Latin and Anglo-Saxon
> texts?
>
> (4) What is the usual way on this list to represent Gothic accented
> vowels?, if like me you don't trust all emailers to transmit
> high-order characters (= characters with internal code values bigger
> than 127) correctly.






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