Crimean Gothic

[Carol F. Justus]

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>	Diamond points out that "Classical" Gothic (my term, not his) is
>not ancestral to Crimean Gothic and that Busbecq somewhat arbitrarily
>called the language Gothic --although Diamond agrees that it was a form of
>Gothic. Diamond does go into some of the details in his article.

>Rick Mc Callister
>W-1634
>Mississippi University for Women
>Columbus MS 39701

Are we to consider Diamond an authority here or to confirm the correctness
of his information based on other Gothic authorities? I seem to recall that
he is a biologist, not a linguist, so this foray into Gothic has got to
depend on the authority of Germanicists, hasn't it?

Carol Justus