Everything about The East Germanic Languages totally explained
The
East Germanic languages are a group of extinct
Indo-European languages in the
Germanic family. The only East Germanic language of which texts are known is
Gothic; other languages that are assumed to be East Germanic include
Vandalic,
Burgundian, and
Crimean Gothic. Crimean Gothic is believed to have survived until the
18th century.
Based on accounts by
Jordanes,
Procopius,
Paul the Deacon and others,
linguistic evidence (see
Gothic language), placename evidence, and on archaeological evidence, it's believed that the
East Germanic tribes, the speakers of the East Germanic languages, migrated from
Scandinavia to the area between the
Oder and the
Vistula rivers, ca
600 BCE – ca
300 BCE. In fact, the Scandinavian influence on
Pomerania and northern Poland from period III and onwards was so considerable that this region is sometimes included in the
Nordic Bronze Age culture (Dabrowski 1989:73).
There are also archaeological and toponymic evidence that Burgundians originated in the island of
Bornholm in
Denmark (
Old Norse:
Borgundarholm).
The East Germanic tribes, related to the
North Germanic tribes, had migrated from
Scandinavia into the East of
Elbe (
Vandals,
Burgundians,
Goths,
Rugians and others).
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