Thank you very much for your help, I had some time to look at the
other lessons and yeah it does ge a bit harder. Althought I have no
cluewhat syntax is which is kind of sad becuase I speak 4 languages
fluently, but hey what can I say? I use to do a lot of drugs and
can barely remmber my own name.
Llama Don, thank you very much for those links that you gave me. I
personally found the Latin site the most helpfull. There is just so
much nformation on there that it's a shame that many people canno
understand the language.
Oscar Herrera, I completely agree, the language should be brought
back into Spain, I personally think Franco did good with making kids
memorize the names of Gothic kngs, et cetera, but I do not know why
he had to bring the moors back to our lands, I mean that's the last
thing we'd wan, no? We wouldn't want to have the maranos occupying
our lands and raping our women again, either way the government
should try to do something at least for interest in our ancestry is
rising, not only in Spain but also in Latin America by those of
Spanish decent, or at the least were raised as Spaniards.-¿Uds. es
de España?
Ex Odium
Eros
--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Francisc Czobor" <fericzobor at y...>
wrote:
>
> Hi, Eros,
>
> Gothic is indeed a beautiful language, and to learn it means for
sure
> more than memorizing declension and conjugation. It has also its
own
> syntax, of course strongly influenced by the Greek model in the
case
> of the most important extant Gothic text - the Bible translation,
> which is also the main source for our knowledge of Gothic.
> I'm not a historian, so I'm not the most qualified to give an
answer
> on why, in Visigothic Spain, they gave up Gothic in favor of Latin.
> The main reason would be that the Romanic population was more
> numerous than the Gothic invaders, so the later became naturally
> assimilated (the same thing happened with the Germanic Franks who
> became romanized in Gaul, with the Germanic Ostrogoths and
Langobards
> who became romanized in Italy, or with the Turkic Old Bulgarians
who
> became slavized in Bulgaria).
> Another reason is the fact that when the Visigoths changed
Arianism
> for Catholicism, Gothic was replaced by Latin as a church language
> (and consequently as an official and literary language).
> The question of your PS, regarding larger vocabularies of Gothic
> words, was already answered by Llama Nom.
>
> Francisc
>
> --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "in_odium" <in_odium at y...> wrote:
> >
> > Thank you Francisc, I went to the URL that you gave me. So far
I
> > find it easy(I'm on lesson 2). Does it get any harder than just
> > memorizing how to conjugate and inflect words? Either way it is
a
> > very beautiful language, even more beautiful when written in
it's
> > own alphabet. I don't understand why they gave it up in favor
of
> > Latin. I know the Roman ifluence was strong in Hispania, but
> still,
> > why did they adopt their language. I can agree that i was time
to
> > adopt more Roman-esquish laws as opposed to "barbaric" laws. I
> know
> > that exchange of culture is bound to happen no matter what, but
> what
> > would force a people to give up their own language in exchange
for
> > another when not under foreign rule? Oh well....... atleast
> > Castillian, Catalan, Galcian, Portuguese and Áranes are
beautifull
> > languages too......... somewhat.
> >
> > Ex Odium
> > Eros
> >
> > Post Scriptum - Is there a larger vocabulary of gothic words on
> that
> > same site? I haven't had much time to look at it thouroghly
since
> > I'm actaully doing all this stuff using a PSP since my computer
> > broke and it loads pages so damned slow, many thanks.
> >
>
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