[gothic-l] Old Gutnish

[Bertil Häggman]

Keth,

Thank you for offering views on the methods
of comparing Old Gutnish and Gothic. These
are technical problems to be solved one the
work is started. It is of course mainly a question
of how much of the documented Old Gutnish
is available. I just think that the material used
by Francisc is too thin. At least the 450 rune
inscriptions would have to be included. There
is an excellent study _Gotlands runinskrifter_,
2 volumes, 1962-78.

Gothically

Bertil

> Of course other approaches are also possible, such as statistics
> of vocabularies. But that method has its problems as well, since
> the same letters do not always reflect the same sounds etc.
> And if done by computer, how to tell the computer to extract the
> correct roots or stems etc.
>
> Another method might be to compare the morphologies.
> e.g. of nouns, verbs and adjectives.



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