Crimean Gothic language



         


Gothic language that was spoken in Crimea (now Ukraine) until the 18th century.

Few fragments of the Crimean Gothic remained to this day, as the only things we know about it are from a 16th century letter by the Flemish ambassador Proto-Germanic *-jj- into -ddj- (as in Ulfilian Gothic iddja "went" from PGmc. *ejjon), being from PGmc. *ajja-.

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