Toledo

[raul catalan ramos]

I have "argued" about this point with my friends several times.From my point 
of view, according to the number of words inherited from east germanic, it 
is very unlikely the employ of gothic by goths in Hispania, becasuse most of 
germanic words in nowadays spanish is limited to only a handful examples (as 
  "guerra" (written "Werra"  in the ancient sources , meaning "war") or 
"bosque" meaning "forest", both of them nearby the same as the italian words 
for war, "guerra", and   forest,"bosco"). On the other hand, the lack of 
written sources in gothic can't be used to deny the employ of gothic among 
goths in hispania, because the written sources from this period are closely 
related to the highest elites of society, whose focus was the roman (and  
then bizantine) culture and the employ of Latin. I agree with the idea that 
gothic vanished in a few generations, but I think that it must endured for 
some time in rural areas far from the cities.

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