From: george knysh
Message: 59852
Date: 2008-08-24
> > > They [GK: the Vandals] spoke an East Germanic language, so they were not****GK: What is missing in the wikipedia article on the Vandals is the data from Pliny and Tacitus. According to the former (NH IV.99) the "Vandili" were a group of Germanic tribes "quorum pars Burgodiones, Varinnae, Charini, Gutones". According to the latter (Germania, 2), the Germani celebrated the "Vandalios" as their own in "carminibus antiquis", and Tacitus concluded that the designation (Vandilii/Vandalii) was among the "vera et antiqua" Germanic "nomina". As we know, Tacitus also made a clear distinction between Vandals and Venedi.****
> > > 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.