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Gothic language

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Gothic warriors, speaking the Gothic language, ruled kingdoms in Italy and Spain in former Roman provinces, after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire.

The Gothic language was a Germanic language.[1] It was spoken by the people of one of the Germanic tribes which occupied former provinces of ancient Rome, after the collapse of the Western Roman empire.

A version of the Christian Bible was translated into the Gothic language survives today.[1]

Gothic warriors ruled a lost Roman provinces in what is now Italy and Spain.[1] Their language died when those Gothic rulers were defeated, since their subjects had always spoken dialects of the Latin language.

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Europe's Lost Languages". General Knowledge via YouTube. 2026-03-20. Retrieved 2026-04-19.