Gothic/Appendix/Resources

You've probably completed our tutorial on the Gothic language by now, so you might want to do some further reading.

Codex Abrosianus

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Chapter One

1. Introduction
2. Gothic on your Computer
3. Gothic Alphabet
4. Accentuation

Chapter Two

1. Chapter Vocabulary
2. Cases of the Noun
3. Pronouns
4. Conjugation of the weak Verb
5. Word Declension
6. Exercises
7. Reading texts

Chapter Three

1. Chapter Vocabulary
2. Adjectives
3. Adverbs
4. Numbers
5. Exercises

Chapter Four

1. Chapter Vocabulary
2. Word Order
3. Strong verbs
4. Comparatives
5. Conjunctions
6. Neologisms
7. Exercises

Chapter Five

1. Chapter Vocabulary
2. Gothic-to-English Translation Exercises
3. English-to-Gothic Translation Exercises
4. Neologism Exercises

Appendix

1. Further Resources
2. Gothic Glossary
3. Answers to Exercises

Learn More

Joseph J. Wright's Grammar of the Gothic Language

This book was used as a basis for this tutorial in combination with David Salo's tutorials. The book has absolutely everything you need to know about Gothic to speak it with the exception of the neologisms, which were taken from Gotische Grammatik and conventions used by the Gothic Wikipedia for the formation of new words.

The third edition is public domain, so feel free to download it from either source.

• Grammar of the Gothic Language - From the Germanic Lexicon Project individual OCR scans of each text.
• Grammar of the Gothic Language - Preassembled PDF of the above

David Salo's Basic Gothic Tutorial

David's tutorial was used as a partial basis for this tutorial. AS it is limited by the technology of its time, the tutorial will not present you with anything new, and it's not even a complete tutorial. Nevertheless, it might be a good resource for learning the Latin transcription of Gothic if you just want to use the standard US keymap. This would be preferable for Linux users, even if they might be able to get away with using the Icelandic keymap.

• Tutorial

Online tutorials to learn Gothic

Here are some tutorials which you'll be able to find online:

• The Gothic Alphabet, A Memrise Course a course at Memrise to learn to read the Gothic alphabet
• The Gothic Language, Memrise course A course at Memrise to learn Gothic
• Gothic for Goths Youtube Series to learn some useful phrases and some grammar of the Gothic language, specially for people which adhere the modern Gothic subculture
• Gothic course by James Marchand A course to learn Gothic, but the transliteration used is quite different from the one normally used, the course gives step-by-step explanations
• Learn the Gothic Prayer Learn to read Atta Unsar in Gothic, a course by Robert Oliphant

Sharpen your skills

You can sharpen your Gothic skills by visiting these sites, and either reading or contributing to them. They will increase your ability to read and write Gothic, and you will learn more about the people behind the language. The Wikis will give you the hardest challenge - writing, especially for Uncyclopedia, where you must build humour with the language - which can be exceptionally hard!

• The Gothic Wikipedia (contains a lot of mistakes)
• Gothic Uncyclopedia
• Wulfila Project Gothic Bible
• The Gothic Mailing List
• Himma Daga, a newspaper in the Gothic language (a lot of articles are reviewed and most are corrected, some of the earlier articles may contain mistakes)