Vandalic language

Spoken in

• Indo-European language Germanic language East Germanic language Vandal

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Acc ( other Germanic languages)

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Vandal is an East Germanic language, which became extinct at the end of antiquity. The language was spoken by the people of the Vandals and was the now extinct Gothic also probably related.

Temporal and geographical classification

For the first time occupied is the gene of the Vandals 77 AD by Pliny the Elder as Vandali or Vindili in what is now southern Poland. With the destruction of the North African Vandal kingdom with its capital Carthage by the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I in 533, died from the Vandal language.

The research concerns due to the source material, especially on the last century of the nearly 500-year history of the people, as it had long since left Poland and lived in the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa.

Language certificates

There are so far only very few language certificates for the Vandal language. All certificates are foreign certificates, none of the evidence proves that the language was written by the vandals themselves.

The Latin epigram De conviviis barbaris (literally About outlandish revelry ), mediated by the Codex Salmasianus and Anthologia Latina, contains a Germanic fragment that keep most authors for Vandal, although the fragment in the text is referred to as a gothic:

"Inter Eils Goticum scapia matzia ia drincan! non audet quisquam Dignos educere versus. "

"Between the Gothic healing [ shouts and their cries ] " Let us eat and drink procure! " dare no one to produce graceful verse. "

The Quotation of the fragment as gothic is not surprising, since, for example, the historian Procopius referred to as Gothic in the 6th century both Goths and Vandals, Visigoths, and Gepids as the Gothic peoples and their language in general.

A second witness is found in the Collatio Beati Augustini cum Pascentio ariano, one by an unknown author 430-450 AD, wrote and directed against the Arians treatise, namely the translation of the liturgical call Lord, have mercy: Fröja arm. In Gothic ie the same formula Frauja Armais.

These two set -like language certificates are joined by Vandal persons name from Spanish sources or from the Tablettes Albertini, described with ink timber panels, which were found in 1928 on the border between Tunisia and Algeria.

History of Research

Because the sources are only minor research opportunities in the Vandal language.

After all, written by the German linguist Ferdinand Wrede with his thesis about the language of the Vandals in 1886 a comprehensive work on the Vandal language.

2002 An attempt was made in the Vandals research to reconstruct a complete phonetics of the language. This reconstruction was done mainly on the basis of the Vandal people's names.