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Actually, not so:
while Ulfilas's work preceded Jerome's Vulgate Bible, that was by no means
the first Latin Bible; there appear to have been at least 27 earlier
translations in whole or part.
See this site for more:
http://www.vetuslatina.org/


Tore Gannholm wrote:
> As long as the were Arian Christian the Gothic language was the
> reglious language as their bible was written in the Gothic language. The
> bible was translated into Gothic much earlier than it was translaten into
> Latin.
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> Tore
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>
> 4 jul 2007 kl. 21.52 skrev raul catalan ramos:
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>
>> 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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