2012-07-16

Language of the Vandals,by Nicoletta Onesti

http://unisi.academia.edu/NicolettaOnesti/Papers/705271/Tracing_the_Language_of_the_Vandals

Tracing the Language of the Vandals

by Nicoletta Onesti

 The existing linguistic evidence. There is no record left of a text in the Vandalic language long enough to contain agroup of phrases forming at least one complete sentence. The unfortunatecircumstance that no written text in Vandalic has survived (if this language was everactually written down) has certainly not helped draw the attention and interest of scholars over the years toward the language of the Vandals. And, above all, it hassurely prevented our acquisition of sufficient knowledge of this language, whichhowever must have belonged, like Gothic, to the East Germanic group.

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