Reconstructing Gothic

[d.faltin@hispeed.ch [gothic-l]]

Some members have expressed the ambition to reconstruct or extrapolate Gothic. There is a new book by the German linguist Wolfram Euler called Westgermanisch (West Germanic), where Euler has reconstructed Langobardic from Old High German. Both languages are West Germanic and very closely related. However, I guess using the proper rules it would be possible to extrapolate Gothic into a fully fledged language.
 

 Here is a video of a guy reading the Old High German Hildebrandslied in original and in the reconstructed Langobardic. I think this reconstructed Langobardic is also pretty close to Gothic.
 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kpRFU7YKY8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kpRFU7YKY8

 

 Cheers,
 Dirk
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