I can't say anything about Gothic lit after WW2, except for: http://www.stormloader.com/carver/gutrazda/bagmebloma.html http://www.stormloader.com/carver/gutrazda/ringpoem.html
and a few more on http://www.stormloader.com/carver/gutrazda/index.html
I can understand the hesitation with dead languages, especially Gothic, with such a limited vocabulary as it has, but other languages, such as Latin, Old Norse, and Old English/Anglo-Saxon should definitely have wikipedias, as they have quite a large corpus of material written in their languages, have large vocabularies, and have large numbers of people who learn them, write in them, and speak them. Just check out these sites on Old English: http://www.buckrogers.demon.co.uk/nasc.htm and http://home.comcast.net/~modean52 and http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/4506/ and http://www.kami.demon.co.uk/gesithas/index.html
Old Norse: http://www.hi.is/~haukurth/norse/ and http://hem.passagen.se/peter9/gram/index.html and http://www.snerpa.is/net/isl/isl.htm
I can list at least 20 to 30 more sites between the two languages. Material is being written both in Old Norse and Old English nowadays, and there are mailing lists for both languages, with communities willing to support wikipedias in both languages. I myself would contribute to both languages' wikipedias, and a Gothic one as well, if it were created. Could the requestor please list some sites or material he has available to him, as I'm simply curious about the ability of Gothic to adequately describe modern concepts and events.
James
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Andre Engels Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 6:08 AM To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] A proposal for a new language in wikipedia
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:18:09 +0000 Fredrik Adevåg gadrauhts@hotmail.com wrote:
I'd like to be responsible for the creation of a wikipediaversion in gothic.
Full name: gothic
Language code: got
Number of speakers: 0
Number of people which has knowledge about gothic: at least 400, probably much more.
I still am very wary about putting Wikipedia in dead languages. Reason is that in my opinion the first function of Wikipedia is to bring over the information content in the articles; the language, in my opinion, is just a means to do this, it should not be a goal in its own. Because, as far as I can see, nobody would _prefer_ to have Gothic as the language in which s/he gets this information, I don't think having a Gothic Wikipedia aids in this goal (and yes, there are languages in which Wikipedia already exists with which I have the same objections).
My doubts would be much lessened if you could give me evidence that the language is actually used - in the sense of being written/spoken rather than
just read. I would like to ask this:
Can you specify a body of literature written in Gothic, from recent date (say, after World War II)?
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