Use of Gothic language in Spain

[faltin2001]

I couldn't really follow the debate about the use of Gothic in Spain. 
Some members seem to believe that the Visigoths of the 6th and 7th 
century spoke Gothic, whereas I had at the start of this discussion 
expressed the opinion that Gothic had vanished already in the course 
of the 5th century. 

Here is what Roger Collins "Visigothic Spain 406-711", p. 242 has to 
say about this question:

"What would have been a major barrier to integration, separate 
languages, never seems to have existed in Spain. Had the Gothic 
language survived in use, it is hard to see how a large-scale 
absorption of the Hispano-Roman upper classes into a new sense of 
identity could have occurred. However, there is no evidence for the 
use of Gothic in Spain in the sixth and seventh centuries."

Cheers, 
Dirk 

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