August, 19th, 2016: Many changes have been made. The built-in Skeirs font by Robert Pfeffer now only displays the Gothic Unicode, so that Roman text is displayed without the font. Thanks to Robert for adjusting the font to do this. Second, the User Interface translation for Gothic is opened up again, which we are currently fixing. There was an issue with the number of translation of Media wiki which is why it was locked. Third, we are working on a new dictionary. We're also correcting some of the Gothic on main pages.
March, 25th, 2016: All articles corrected with the exception of one. All front page articles are protected and 3 articles are added to the front page articles.
October 23th, 2015: Our Wikipedia got a huge clean-up: articles with mistakes got corrected and bad or unnecessary articles were removed.
Don't speak Gothic? Gothic is an ancient East Germanic language spoken during the Dark Ages in Ukraine, Spain, Italy, and Aquitaine. It is the oldest Germanic language which we have a lot of knowledge of, and its vocabulary is highly similar to that of Old English. It is mostly known through a translation of the Bible made in the 4th century by Wulfila, an Ostrogothic bishop, but there are other writings in Gothic, such as a calendar, some records of financial transactions, and an explanation of the Bible known as the "Skeireins". The Skeireins is most likely written in native Gothic, and so it has a more complex structure than the Gothic Bible. Gothic is no longer spoken, and it has no descendants, but it can still be seen in Spanish, with words like "ganso" (goose), and in "Bagme Bloma", a poem by J.R.R. Tolkien written in a reconstructed form of Gothic.
Gothic is written in an alphabet of its own. You will find fonts here, keyboard help here, and transliteration rules here.
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