East Gothic language

East Gothic
Ostgotisch
Region	central Levantia
Ethnicity	predominantly East Goths, Yonderians
Native speakers	c.60,000,000 (2025) (c.105,000,000 including L2 speakers)
Language family	Occidental Old Central Gothic Gothic East Gothic
Early form	Proto-Gothic
Official status
Official language in	Yonderre
Language codes
ISO 639-3	EGO

The East Gothic language (East Gothic: Ostgotische Sprache, Burgoignesc: La Lengatge Ostrogoths) is a Gothic language, one of two official languages spoken in Yonderre, a country in central Levantia. East Gothic forms part of the Gothic subfamily and by extension the wider Occidental superfamily. East Gothic is an inflected language, with four cases for nouns, pronouns, and adjectives (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative); three genders (masculine, feminine, neuter); and two numbers (singular, plural). It has strong and weak verbs. The majority of its vocabulary derives from the Gothic branch of Occidental, particularly of the Central Gothic language that came before it. The East Gothic language has been influenced heavily by the Burgoignesc language ever since the Conquest of Joanusterra in the mid-fifteenth century, and, to a lesser extent, Julian Ænglish, from which some words and terms have entered common parlance in Eastern Yonderre.

East Gothic is the native language of around 60 million Yonderians and treated equally to the Burgoignesc language also spoken. Dialects of East Gothic are typically specific to the different regions where it is spoken. Since the popularization of radio, many dialects of East Gothic have been dying out and replaced with the Reichssprache, the "language of the realm", a dialect bridging the gap between Gabion East Gothic and Collinebourg East Gothic, very popular in radio, television and with Yonderian cinema.

The East Gothic language and Hendalarskisch are very closely related and largely mutually intelligible. The largest differences are found in pronunciation and language-specific vocabulary, which may severely hinder mutual intelligibility in some dialects. All dialects of East Gothic and Hendalarskisch form a dialect continuum within a wider Gothic dialect continuum.

Vocabulary

Szabolcs list word	East Gothic form	Notes
I	ich
you (sing.)	du
he	er
we	wir
you (pl.)	ihr	(Sie, the formal form, is also used in some circumstances.)
they	sie
this	das	As Gothic languages are inflected languages, this word changes substantially based on case and other factors
that	das	As Gothic languages are inflected languages, this word changes substantially based on case and other factors
here	hier
there	dort
who	wer
what	was
where	wo
when	wann
how	wie
not	nicht
all	alle	As Gothic languages are inflected languages, this word changes substantially based on case and other factors
many	viel	As Gothic languages are inflected languages, this word changes substantially based on case and other factors
some	einige
few	wenig
other	ander
one	ein
two	zwei	Sometimes "zwo"
three	drei
four	vier
five	fünf
big	groß
long	lang
thick	dick
heavy	schwer
small	klein
short	kurz
narrow	schmal
thin	dün
woman	Frau
man (adult male)	Mann
man (human being)	Mensch
child	Kind
wife	Ehefrau
husband	Ehemann
mother	Mutter
father	Vater
animal	Tier
fish	Fisch
bird	Vogel
dog	Hund
louse	Laus
snake	Schlange	Sometimes "Schnecke", particularly in regions close to Anglei
worm	Wurm	Sometimes "Schnecke" when referring to snake-like reptiles, particularly in regions close to Anglei
tree	Baum
forest	Wald
stick	Stock
fruit	Frucht
seed	Samen
leaf	Blatt
root	Wurzel
bark (of a tree)	Rinde	Sometimes "Borke"
flower	Blume
grass	Gras
rope	Schnur
skin	Haut
meat	Fleisch
blood	Bluht
bone	Bein
fat (noun)	Fett
egg	Ei
horn	Horn
tail	Schwanz
feather	Feder
hair	Hahr
head	Kopf
ear	Ohr
eye	Auge
nose	Nase
mouth	Mund
tooth	Zahn
tongue	Zunge
fingernail	Fingernagel
foot	Fuss
leg	Bein
knee	Knie
hand	Hand
wing	Flügel
belly	Bauch
guts	Darm
neck	Hals
back	Rücke
breast	Brust
heart	Herz
liver	Leber
to drink	trinken
to eat	essen	As Gothic languages are inflected languages, this word changes substantially based on case and other factors
to bite	beißen
to suck	lutschen
to spit	spucken
to vomit	speien
to blow	blasen
to breathe	atmen
to laugh	lachen
to see	sehen
to hear	hören
to know	wissen
to think	denken
to smell	riechen
to fear	befürchten
to sleep	schlafen
to live	leben
to die	sterben
to kill	töten
to fight	kämpfen
to hunt	jägen
to hit	schlagen
to cut	schneiden
to split	spalten
to stab	stechen
to scratch	kratzen
to dig	graben
to swim	schwimmen
to fly	fliegen
to walk	gehen
to come	kommen
to lie	liegen
to sit	sitzen
to stand	stehen
to turn	wenden
to fall	fallen
to give	geben
to hold	halten
to squeeze	drücken
to rub	reiben
to wash	waschen
to wipe	wischen
to pull	ziehen
to push	schieben
to throw	werfen
to tie	binden
to sew	nähen
to count	zählen
to say	sagen
to sing	singen
to play	spielen
to float	treiben
to flow	fließen
to freeze	frieren
to swell	schwellen
sun	Sonne
moon	Mond
star	Stern
water	Wasser
rain	Regen
river	Fluss
lake	See
sea	Meer	Sometimes also "See"
salt	Salz
stone	Stein
sand	Sand
dust	Staub
earth	Erde
cloud	Wolke
fog	Nebel
sky	Himmel
wind	Wínd
snow	Schnee
ice	Eis
smoke	Rauch
fire	Feuer
ash	Esche
to burn	brennen
road	Straße	Sometimes also "Weg"
mountain	Berg
red	rot
green	grün
yellow	gelb
white	weiß
black	schwarz
night	Nacht
day	Tag
year	Jahr
warm	warm
cold	kalt
full	voll
new	neu
old	alt
good	gut
bad	schlecht
rotten	faul
dirty	schmuzig
straight	gerad
round	rund
sharp	scharf
dull	stumpf
smooth	glatt
wet	nas
dry	trocken
correct	recht
near	nah
far	weit
right	recht
left	links	in East Gothic it's left that's cognate with correct/just, not right (that is instead cognate with common); historians have hypothesised that this may have been due to unusually high rates of left-handedness in key ruling elites early in the language's history
at	an
in	in
with	mit
and	und
if	wenn
because	weil
name	Name