From: tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 10:51:33 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] V-, B-
--- In cybalist@... s.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@... > wrote:
>
> 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.
Are there any other than the names of kings mentioned in the Wikipedia
article?
> There are also two very short passages that may be Vandalic, though
> it's also possible that they are Gothic.
Could you quote them?
Torsten