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East Gothic
Ostgotisch
Regioncentral Levantia
Ethnicitypredominantly East Goths, Yonderians
Native speakers
c.66,000,000 (2030)
(c.112,000,000 including L2 speakers)
Occidental
  • Old Central Gothic
    • Gothic
      • East Gothic
Early form
Proto-Gothic
Official status
Official language in
Language codes
ISO 639-3EGO
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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.[1] 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.

Burgicisms

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" to prevent confusion with "drei"
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 is left that is 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

See also

Notes

  1. A minority of Hendalarskara linguists insist that the Gothic family is its own language family, independent of all other branches of Occidental (e.g. Förstol, 2003), although as of the 2020s this proposal is widely discredited.