Episode 157: Highlands, Lowlands and Netherlands
The History of English Podcast
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The Gothic Language
Ogier gislan de buzbeck was a diplomat in the service of the holy roman empire. He noticed that some people were speaking a language that resembled his own native dutchlanguage. De buzbeck recorded as many of the words as he could, about a hundred in total, and he published them a few years later. His work was the last evidence of that gothic dialect before it ely disappeared forevera short time later.
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