[gothic-l] Re: is Gothic the language of one or a few men?

Wed Feb 11 18:46:17 UTC 2015

"As I have read how Visigoths and Ostrogoths could understand each other well I think tgat there wasn't much to standardize."
I understood the idea of standardization in the context of the migration hypothesis, that for example Old Nordic, a predecessor of OHG (Vandalic?, Suebian?) and one or two additional languages, would have been mixed up to ca 350 when Wulfila began to translate.
The first result from a web-search says the split between Visigoths and Ostrogoths happened around 370 CE. Unless the division into Visigoths and Ostrogoths was an old concept resurrected, Visigoths and Ostrogoths would have spoken the same language, so this division should have nothing to do with the standardization idea. It would be like saying "I don't think English has been a mix of Anglic, Nordic, German and Latin, because Australians and Americans understand each other well."
Or what do you think?/Basti

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