EAST GERMANIC LANGUAGES

group of long extinct Germanic languages once spoken by Germanic tribes located between the middle Oder and the Vistula. William G. Moulton Anthony F. Buccini Additional reading Grammars of the Gothic language with reading selections are Joseph Wright, Grammar of the Gothic Language, 2nd ed. (1954, reprinted 1981); William H. Bennett, An Introduction to the Gothic Language (1980); Fernand Moss, Manuel de la langue gotique, new ed. adapted and expanded (1956); Wolfgang Krause, Handbuch des Gotischen, 3rd rev. ed. (1968); and Wilhelm Braune, Gotische Grammatik, 19th ed. rev. by Ernst A. Ebbinghaus (1981). A discussion of Crimean Gothic is MacDonald Stearns, Jr., Crimean Gothic: Analysis and Etymology of the Corpus (1978). A useful resource is Winfred Lehmann and Helen-Jo J. Hewitt, A Gothic Etymological Dictionary (1986). William G. Moulton Anthony F. Buccini