Today snapshot 26.3 came out and Minecraft can now be played in Gothic.

Thanks to Mixer for the screenshots.

Second meme posted for the day, went with the vocative 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌿 over the nominative 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌿𐍃; it feels more accurate. EDIT: I misremembered the u-stem vocative as being the same as its accusative, this should've been 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌰𐌿 from the looks of it.

REMINDER: We have a Discord server where we discuss all things Gothic language-related. Link: https://discord.gg/n2KNstYhA

I made a post a while ago about having formatted a Wiki page of the Gothic Bible in the original Gothic alphabet into a book, and my copy finally arrived. I am pleased with the result. there are probably small errors throughout, but I'm no editor. I am just happy to have this in hand and available. I'm tired of transcriptions being stuck on the Internet. We as a learned society need more printed transcriptions, not more modernizations or translations.

Thanks a lot to arglwydes and Kolibri8 for helping with the translation!

I still don't like the 𐌳 I made, but I couldn't find any examples of italic Gothic so I had to improvise a bit… and I'm not a designer🫠

And thanks to blueroses200 for the idea!

This is the Modern Gothic alphabet from my Earth 2 worldbuilding project. The Goths migrated south to where the Greeks lived and began raiding and establishing permanent settlements there. As the Greeks resettled in an abundant new (to them) continent, the Goths adopted local customs and culture, becoming heavily Hellenized except for their language and some (but rare) pagan carryovers (not common because unlike the Catholic Church which used syncretism to convert heathens in our world, the New World lacks the Catholic Church and thus only the Orthodox Church [and some heretical sects in the Far West] exists, and it was VERY strict in conversion.) Gothia as a country was formerly a client state of the transoceanic Spartan Empire, and was highly lauded by several emperors to be a very loyal and trustworthy ally across the Thoraic Strait.

The language has essentially the same word order as Demotic Greek, and heavily uses stress in order to prevent catastrophic homophones.

Notice in my sample text how that masculine stem regained the 'a' before the -s and the determiners become definiteness markers. This is due to Greek influence to some extent and for the -s becoming -as to ease pronunciation as the language lost vowel length distinction and syllable structure became stricter.

The language has influence from Demotic Greek (and all of its loanwords), Galatian (Continental Celtic language spoken in Earth 2/New World unrelated to the extinct Anatolian Gaulish dialect but probably mutually intelligible), recently English, and a neighboring language isolate called Carsengian.

Additionally, several regions in Gothia have historically merged the sounds of h and x into a single [x] or [h] sound, which extends to the hwair letter as well. The language's evolution from Biblical Gothic is a very conservative one but has evolved enough to simplify into its current form.

Like Modern (Demotic) Greek, most of the strange vowel spellings are now fossilized as the language has lost vowel length distinction and now are pronounced the same in many cases.

I had an idea last night to try to make a radiation sign and what that would be in Gothic as a fun little exercise in translation and neologisms. For the term for radiation itself, I took inspiration from the German word Strahlung from the noun Strahl, which means something like ray, beam or jet. I wanted to find a similar term in Gothic and decided to use the word arhwazna ("arrow"), I then used the present participal as an equivalent to the German ending -ung or English -ing, so I this case the verb would be arhwaznan for "to radiate." It would literally translate to "arrowing" I this case I believe, which has a nice feeling to it, getting across the idea of radiation being like a bunch of arrows hitting you.

I also just used ion and came up with the verb ionisan for to ionize, thinking in the future if Gothic survived it may just borrow that term.

The top I am the least sure about I went for something like "Beware the danger" atsaihw sleitheins instead of just "danger!" Is this a correct translation, and is there a better way of saying something like "be careful!" I'm curious to hear what you guys have to say. If someone came up with a better neologism for radiation, please let me know!

This is from printable Bible on Old Church Slavonic by Ivan Fiodorov

You may all remember this famous book by Joseph Wright. Long, long ago (around 2005) there was this little "TO DO" on the website of Sean Crist, along the lines of... "the glossary of this book has been digitized and is in a fairly decent form, now we still need to do the rest of the book, for which we have OCR versions with a lot of errors". Around those days, I set out to embark this project... and around 20 years later, I was at around 15% of the whole book.

In recent months, with help of Claude, I managed to speed up my progress on this project a lot. Right now, I can happily tell you that the full book has now been digitized in a readable HTML format. So now, I can present you a digitized edition of Wright's Grammar of the Gothic Language, which is found at:

https://joostwinter.net/linguistics/gothic-grammar/index.html

Additional suggestions are of course more than welcome.

You can, on my webpage, also find -- less spectacularly, but perhaps still interesting -- the full text of the Gothic Bible. It is in essence the same as what can be found on Project Wulfila, and is based on Streitberg's edition, and is in fact based on the XML file from Project Wulfila, but perhaps the presentation appeals more to some people!

edit: link to the Gothic Bible + Skeireins + deeds + calendar: https://joostwinter.net/linguistics/gothic-corpus/index.html

Mōþ skaþjandan

sunáus *Pelaiáus 2

siggw, *ansa,

*Akillaiáus mikilis, 4

saei þuláin waúrhta

þūsundjōm *Akaïjē, 6

sáiwalōs sandida

managōs swinthōs 8

in halja frumistáizē,

hundam láuna 10

jah fuglam alláim,

untē usfulljáidáu wilja 12

*Zaíwáus, sakandans

fram þammei twisstōþun 14

*Atraíáus *frasts,

sa fráuja mannē, 16

jah *Akilaíus gudisks.

Hwas *ansus báidida 18

faúr *liuþ weihan?

*Lētōns jah *Zaíwáus 20

sunus Apaúllō,

saei mōdags miþ alwandandin 22

unháili ana hari

sandida ubilata, 24

gadáuthnōda *draúhts,

untē *Krwsein gudjan 26

unswēráida *Agamemnōn;

sa iddja ana skipa 28

*adra *Akaïjē

láusjands dauhtar 30

jah waírþans baírands

lunans, wáipans 32

hafands in handum

*hindarskiutandins, 34

Apaúllōns waldandins

ana gulþeinamma waláu, 36

jah bidáida *Akajuns

*Atraiáus sununs 38

frumist twans,

*draúhtins *fulks; 40

*Atraiáus sunjus

jah allái *waíla-husjái, 42

izwis *ansjus

*Aúlwmpjan báuandans 44

gifáina brikan

*Priamáus baúrg, 46

jah hindar du *háimái

háilans atwandjan; 48

*frast mis fralētaiþ

*filuliuba, 50

jah lun habáiþ,

háuhjandans *Zaiwáus 52

*frast Apaullōn

faírraskiutandan. 54

In Germanic poetic form, similar to Beowulf and Old Norse fornyrðislag, alliterating verse with two primary stresses per line (I've numbered every two verses to make the pattern clearer).

Tried to asterisk any words or forms that aren't attested. Would really appreciate any critique or corrections. I want to recite the poem and make a video about it soon, and I want to make it as accurate as possible.

Huge thanks to arglwydes and alvarkresh for answering my questions and proofreading the translation. Initially I wanted to make it “dzaggō” and I explained why in the post, but the guys convinced me to use J.

I hope all letters are recognizable, I tried to preserve original shapes but I needed to preserve the style as well.

Thank you to Gavin for the translation, text was placed on the image by myself.

REMINDER: We have a Discord server where we discuss all things Gothic language-related. Link: https://discord.gg/n2KNstYhA

As far as I am aware, Gothic, Vandalic and Burgundian were part of the East Germanic branch. So, while there isn't much about Vandalic and Burgundian, in theory, would the speakers of these 3 languages be able to understand each other?

Are there any papers, studies about this?

Thank you in advance!

Hello everyone!

I actually didn't realize that I hadn't made a post about this before here. Last year in collaboration with Professor Christian Peeters I completed the translation of the book "Le Petit Prince" into the Gothic Language. We went through many revisions, corrections and proofreading to make sure that we could deliver an as accurate translation as possible according to biblical Gothic. We also received help from professor Schuhmann for some of the neologisms and reconstructions to make sure they would be correct and linguistically and etymologically solid.

If you are interested, you can purchase a copy at the website of the publisher Tintenfass (preferably):

http://www.verlag-tintenfass.de/HTM/380%20Der%20kleine%20Prinz%20gotisch.html

I'd be glad if you let me know what you think of it if you have it, if you find any problems please also let me know!

Salve! I'm going to the Eternal City in a few months for a vacation. I thought it would be useful to brush up on the language of the new royals in town, or maybe just scare a few Romanii. Does anyone have some useful phrases to keep in my back pocket?

Gratias tibi!