[gothic-l] gothic traces in the east?

[Tiefi]

Hi all,

I'm no lingusitic expert, so this question might
sound "unscientific", i hope you don't mind:

As Germanic nations were settled as a whole in Moesia inf. and sup.,
Thracia, Dacia  and Asia Minor etc. throughout the 3rd/4th/5th
century and later only (?)the warriors left for the west (Visigoths,
Ostrogoths, Eruli....), big parts of the Balkans had rural
Germanic/Gothic settlements around 500/600/700 AD. (Gothi Minores....)

Lateron they mainly got slavicised (proto-serb, proto-bulgar),
hellenized or might have joined the Romano-Vlach-Albanian semi-nomads
in "Macedonia" and Valachia or the Avars and Magyars.

And here my question:

Might there be any traces in this languages, too?
I think so!

But this hasn't been subject of research up to now, as far as i know.

But if there are, they should be easier to find than in Germanic
languages with big similarities (like Swedish, Norge etc.)?!?

Maybe this could help to reconstruct the Gothic language more easyly.

Yours Gothically.

Tiefi




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