[gothic-l] Re: is Gothic the language of one or a few men?

[Dicentis a roellingua@gmail.com [gothic-l]]

As I have read how Visigoths and Ostrogoths could understand each other
well I think tgat there wasn't much to standardize.

Op woensdag 11 februari 2015 heeft edmundfairfax at yahoo.ca [gothic-l] <
gothic-l at yahoogroups.com> het volgende geschreven:
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> Dear Roel,
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> This is a rather antiquated view now. One sometimes comes across similar
claims for German, such that Luther is seen as the "father" of Early Modern
German. The idea is not so much that Gothic was spoken only by a few, but
rather that the Bible translation "standardized" Gothic, that is, created a
literary standard for Goths of varying dialects. Such a view is entirely
speculative, however, since we do not know how much dialectal variation
there was amongst Goths, or how great it was, or whether the language of
the Bible translation was felt by Goths to be a novel creation. Always ask
for proof.
> Audamunds
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