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:[[User:Espreon|Espreon]] ([[User talk:Espreon|talk]]) 00:03, 23 Sēremōnaþ 2014 (UTC)
::You have an active Freenode channel? I started an IRC channel for the Gothic language and shared it at a Gothic Yahoo group. The first weeks there was 1 visitor which never talked, now no one visits it anymore. Even I don't visit it because nobody comes! :D
As for Gothic, I think that, as the Goths have lived in Spain, Italy, Ukraine and other parts of Europe, a big group of people is interested. You are right that a lot of people won't feel themselves ethnically related to the Goths, but I 'm Dutch and I have more in common with Frisians and old Anglo-Saxons than with the old Goths, the reason why I learn it though is because I 'm finished with our knowledge of a Germanic language from the 4th century, we would really be able to speak a REAL medieval language if we would bring it back, from the early medieval times, unlike Latin which is a language from antiquity, but not really a language of the ordinary people from old times. Furthermore I found especially some Spanish people which are pagans, which according to their website have a by the government acknowledged religion now, which was surpressed for 1600 years and which want to speak Gothic. I tried to register at their website but for some reason I never got any acceptance e-mail, maybe they don't like people which only speak Spanish as a later language and not as their native language. :S
I 'm currently translating Polyglotclub in Gothic to make the language more visible and have it being used at another website, not only Wikipedia, and I also tried with some other Gothic revivers to ask Twitter if we can work on a Gothic translation for their website translations and I tried some other ways, but it's really hard to find opening ways to revive the language.
Old Anglo-Saxon however would be interesting too to revive. Maybe more interesting, as we have for Gothic just a Bible, so we would just know how people in medieval times approximately spoke, but can't use it further really. Reviving Tocharian is useless, because little is known about it and although it's old we don't have a lot of known material, Hettite neither, as we would need to learn cuniform and that's too complex for a modern language. Which other languages are left to revive? Hebrew is already revived and modern Israelis can read ancient Hebrew texts up to a certain extent (I really wonder how they interpret them with a partly artifical modern language, modern Hebrew is a very interesting language, as it's partly the old Hebrew, but so many elements are added to it from exisiting languages in the time of Elizer ben Yahuda that it is a half constructed/artificial language), Latin is already spoken in certain places like Universities and people never really stopped speaking it, Ancient Greek is really not used anymore, there isn't even a Wikipedia so the chance is too small, as for Gothic and Anglo-Saxon, those two languages have chances. Gothic would be interesting, especially for people studying Indo-European, but when people learn Anglo-Saxon, maybe even as a first language, they can also read all kinds of old English texts. The only people having Anglo-Saxon as a first language I know of is a person from a family where he/she and the brothers/sisters were brought up with Anglo-Saxon instead of English, because their father was a teacher of Anglo-Saxon and liked the language more then the English language of his country.
I 'm not sure though if we shouldn't first focus on languages like the Celtic ones to survive before we start reviving old ones.
As with Old English. Do you know our Dutch word 'ingang'? It's exactly the same in old Anglo-Saxon, I thought it was really surprising how these kinds of words are exactly the same in my native language.
The only real work I have done so far is writing an article about the Skeireins https://got.wikipedia.org/wiki/%F0%90%8D%83%F0%90%8C%BA%F0%90%8C%B4%F0%90%8C%B9%F0%90%8D%82%F0%90%8C%B4%F0%90%8C%B9%F0%90%8C%BD%F0%90%8D%83
And building a website currently.
[[User:Bokareis|Bokareis]] ([[User talk:Bokareis|talk]]) 18:06, 23 Sēremōnaþ 2014 (UTC)
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