Writing an article

Writing an article about a city or How to write your first article, for real beginners

It is appreciated that people want to contribute with articles. If you do not know much Gothic, this might be a good way to start.

A is a (A stays untranslated in Gothic) city in B is translated as:

A ist baurgs in B

ist = is
baurgs = city
in = in (+ dative)

Gothic in takes the dative case here because it is being used to mark where something is. Country names with -ia have their dative forms ending in -iai; for example, in Bailgiai or in Makaidonjai. Country names that end with -land have the dative -landa: Krekalanda (Greece), for example; country names with -a have the dative -ai, like in Panamai. In Gothic 'sh' couldn't be used in initial position, and was instead written with a non-palatalized "s" (compare "sikls"), so if you wanted to write "Chicago is a city in the United States", that would be:

Seikago ist baurgs in Amairikai.

Or if you wanted to write "Lyon is a city in France", that would be:

Leiaun ist baurgs in Fragkalanda.

If you want to write capital city, baurgs becomes haubidabaurgs. Instead of in you use the genitive. For countries ending with -a or -ia you replace a with os. You replace -reiki with -reikjis and -land with -landis.

Now if you have a province or region, you replace baurgs with gawi.

Here is a list with countries, their Gothic form and the dative form in Gothic.

English	Gothic	Dative Gothic
England	𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳	𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰
Greece	𐌺𐍂𐌴𐌺𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳	𐌺𐍂𐌴𐌺𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰
Israel	𐌹𐍃𐍂𐌰𐌴𐌻	𐌹𐍃𐍂𐌰𐌴𐌻𐌰
Japan	𐌾𐌰𐍀𐌰𐌽	𐌾𐌰𐍀𐌰𐌽

Here is a list with attested cities and provinces in Gothic, categorized in countries.

If it's in red, it means that there doesn't exist an article for it yet and that you could create one if you want. If a city or province contains 'ancient', is should be replaced with was.