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[Engill]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Ulf Wiman" <Esperanto3 at ...> wrote:
>
> Matt:
> 
> I would like to see, my own opinion, and maybe somewhat naive, an 
attempt to promote an interest in the Gothic language and to advance 
a language resuscitation based on the embers of Gothic.  This does 
not involve any Wagnerian fantasy with racial overtones.  By Gothic 
we don't mean a literary `horror' genre or an architecture style, but 
a language revival based on real Gothic.  This could not entirely be 
the Wulfian Gothic of the fourth century, but a language using the 
existing structures of the language and utilizing examples of other 
language movements, e.g. Cornish, Ivrit (Hebrew), and Nynorsk (New 
Norse).  This by its nature does not entail a "pure" Gothic of the 
fourth-century language, but a language capable of neologism and loan 
translations from Germanic languages, like contemporary German and 
Icelandic, e.g.
> 
> Script: Gothic probably needs to employ the Latin script without 
any diacritical marks in order to make it comply with ANSI 
conventions.
> Pronunciation: The Germanic pronunciation of Icelandic could be 
an "ideal,"  not the standard, but rather a direction.
> Grammar: It retains as much as possible of the Wulfian grammar.
> Glossaries: Known Gothic words, Germanic loan translations.
> Syntax: Like modern Germanic languages.
> 
> Ulfie (just a thought!)
>

hails all members of the list

I´m not a linguist but i´m very interested in having a gothic 
language I can use in my heathen practices. After reading thru the 
list I found the introductory course by David Salo. I´ll work on it 
and ask as many question I can. I would be very nice to be able to 
hold a ritual for my ancestors in their language or a new version 
based on it.

Jah Frith ana sunya

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