Lingos

We know from Procopius that Goths and Vandals spoke the same language.  It is assumed that that was some form of East Germanic – presumably Gothic.

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Nevertheless, there is very little evidence of Vandalic language.  It is assumed further that the following passage referring to Gothic is really Vandalic:

scapiam

As you can see it says something like: “scapiamatzia iadrincan” or, if you will, scapia matzia ia drincan.

This comes from the so-called Latin Anthology put together first by Peter Burman the Younger and then by Alexander Riese.

scapi

The “Anthology” is a collection of Latin poems that came from various manuscripts.  The “Vandalic” above comes from an 8th century codex (the olim Salmasiani).

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October 22, 2016

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