From: tgpedersen
Message: 59849
Date: 2008-08-24
>Are there any other than the names of kings mentioned in the Wikipedia
> At 10:35:16 AM on Saturday, August 16, 2008, tgpedersen
> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >> [The Vandals] spoke an East Germanic language, so they
> >> were not LINGUISTICALLY Veneti,
>
> > Nope. The only reason their language, of which we know
> > nothing, is classed as East Germanic, is that they lived
> > in the eastern part of the later Germania.
>
> According to <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandals>:
>
> Jordanes refers to Vandals as Gothic (East Germanic)
> speakers, and name etymologies support the notion of
> Vandalic being near related to Gothic.
>
> I have not attempted to verify the first assertion, but the
> second is clearly correct.
> There are also two very short passages that may be Vandalic, thoughCould you quote them?
> it's also possible that they are Gothic.