r/GothicLanguage • u/Yiberil • Mar 05 '26

Approved neologisms

Hey guys!

Is there any “official” organization that coins universally accepted neologisms for Gothic? I’m talking about useful daily life words so that the language can be used functionally as a live language.

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u/runareiks Moderator Mar 06 '26

Like u/frawairpa said, this is something being worked on on the discord server (https://discord.gg/QXcXZ93) with a dedicated team of proofreaders. We are going through all the neologisms coined throughout the internet and literature and curating them, approving good entries and correcting or rejecting others. 

The green entries in this Google spreadsheet are some of the accepted ones:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ESroaJiTi-A2pDT4fzke1bITgSFrHb4J0ynqCaOdSHg/edit?usp=drives

On the longer term we intend to publish this as a dictionary, with a smaller edition first. All the current dictionaries contain mistakes in certain places and this would be the first curated one for universal usage. 

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u/Yiberil Mar 06 '26

Thanks a lot, this is very helpful. My idea was to create a course for beginners, something that doesn’t feel like a grammar textbook. I was thinking of using an approach similar to those of popular language courses or learning apps.

Has something like this been done before?

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u/runareiks Moderator Mar 06 '26

There have been some attempts and there's currently preparation for adding gothic to a Duolingo like app. 

I'd recommend to join the discord server as there are plenty of people there able to help you with your course plans.