Vandalic language From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Vandalic
Spoken in:	Spain, North Africa
Language extinction:	6th century AD
Language family:	Indo-European  Germanic   East Germanic    Vandalic
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	gem
ISO 639-3:	xvn

Vandalic was a Germanic language probably closely related to the Gothic language. The Vandals, Hasdingi and Silingi established themselves in Gallaecia (Northern Portugal and Galicia) and in Southern Spain, following other Germanic and non-Germanic peoples (Visigoths, Alans and Suevi), before moving to North Africa in AD 429.

Very little is known about the Vandalic language beyond that it was East Germanic, closely related to Gothic. A small number of personal names of Vandalic origin in Spanish are known.

In the 16th, 18th and 19th century, it was believed, according to the Slovenes in the Prekmurje, Somogy and Vas, that they were descendants of the Vandals. In the Hungarian, Latin and other documents, the Prekmurian language (dialect of the Hungarian Slovenes and the Prekmurje) is termed Vandalic language.^[1]

Burgundian language (Germanic) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Burgundian language is an extinct East Germanic language, spoken by the Burgundians in southeastern Gaul as late as the 5th century AD.

Little is known of the language. Some proper names of Burgundians are recorded, and some dialect words used in the area in modern times appear to be derived from the ancient Burgundian language, but it is often difficult to distinguish these from Germanic words of other origin, and in any case the modern form of the words is rarely suitable to infer much about the old language. There is much speculation on the impact Germanic Burgundian had on modern French dialects of Burgundy after the French kingdom absorbed the province.

Goth can also stand for a member of the Goth subculture

The Goths (Gothic: , Gutans) were an East Germanic tribe. Jordanes is a scholar from the 6th century. He wrote a summary of a twelve volume work by Cassiodorus about the Goths. Jordanes work is commonly called Getica. As the original work by Cassiodorius was lost, Getica is the only surviving contemporary account about the Goths. According to this work, they left Scandinavia and settled close to the mouth of the Vistula river (in present day Poland). In the 3rd and 4th centuries they settled Scythia, Dacia and parts of Moesia and Asia Minor. In the 3rd and 4th centuries, they fought with the Roman Empire and later adopted Arianism (a form of Christianity). In the 5th and 6th centuries, they split into the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths. With this move, they established powerful successor-states of the Roman Empire in Italy and on the Iberian peninsula (now Spain & Portugal).^[1]