Crimean Gothic

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Crimean Gothic was a now-extinct Germanic language once spoken in Crimea, believed to be a late-surviving descendant of the Gothic language.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Crimean Gothic canonical 3
Gothic of Crimea 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Germanic language
extinct language
ancestor Gothic
attestationSource Busbecq's letters
continent Europe
documentedBy Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq
ethnicGroup Goths
surface form: Crimean Goths
evidenceType personal names
toponyms
word list
extinctionCause assimilation into surrounding populations
language shift
hasAlternativeName Crimean Goth(ic)
Crimean Gothic
surface form: Gothic of Crimea
hasFeature Germanic consonant shift
Germanic strong verbs
case inflection
grammatical gender
rich verbal morphology
hasLexicalSimilarity Gothic Bible language
hasPhonologicalFeature Germanic umlaut (limited evidence)
influencedBy Greek
Slavic languages
Turkic languages
ISOStatus no ISO 639-3 code
languageBranch East Germanic languages
surface form: East Germanic
languageFamily Germanic languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages
lastAttested 16th century
region Crimean Mountains
southern Crimea
relatedTo Burgundian (Oïl) language
surface form: Burgundian language

Gothic language
Old High German
Old Norse language
surface form: Old Norse

Vandalic language
spokenIn Crimea
Crimea
surface form: Crimean Peninsula
spokenUntil early modern period
status extinct
studiedIn Germanic philology
historical linguistics
subclassOf East Germanic language
Gothic language
timeDepth late survival of East Germanic
uncertainty classification details debated
degree of continuity with biblical Gothic debated
writingSystem Gothic alphabet
Greek script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Gothic language ancestorOf Crimean Gothic
East Germanic peoples spokeLanguage Crimean Gothic
Crimean Gothic hasAlternativeName Crimean Gothic
this entity surface form: Gothic of Crimea
East Germanic languages hasMember Crimean Gothic