Gothic
extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
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Summary
Gothic is a dead language[1]. Gothic ranks in the top 4% of dead language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,785 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Located in the administrative territorial entity: Balkans[3]
- Country: Italy[4], Gaul[5], Spain[6], Ukraine[7], Russia[8]
- Instance of: ancient language[9], extinct language[10]
- Subclass of: East Germanic[11]
- Writing system: Gothic script[12], runic script[13]
- Commons category: Gothic language[14]
- Wikimedia language code: got[15]
- Has part(s): Crimean Gothic[16]
- Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 800[17]
- Topic's main category: Category:Gothic language[18]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 0[19]
- Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[20], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[21], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 3[22], New International Encyclopedia[23]
- Different from: Gothique[24]
- UNESCO language status: 6 extinct[25]
- Indigenous to: Goths[26], Balkans[27]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/GOT[28], http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133102912[29]
- Linguistic typology: stress-timed language[30], fusional language[31]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Ukraine[32]
Why It Matters
Gothic has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] Gothic is known by 53 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]