| There is a connection between Gotland, Poland, Crimea and Spain. All of them have had gothic-speaking populations. www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com Gotlandic still has east-germanic features left in their language as sheep "lamb". They don´t say galeedh(fonetic reconstr.) for travelled as in gothic, but "gläided". Gothic DIDN´T sound like frisian, dutch or english. It was a more nasal, deep-in-the-throat language. It sounded harsh like Zeelandic, where copenhagen is situated and also like high german and like some spanish central dialects. Castellano I think basicly was developed from the accent, which the visigoths had when they spoke latin. The language evolved, but the accent stayed. |
