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| Vandalic | ||
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| Spoken in: | Spain, North Africa | |
| Language extinction: | 6th century AD | |
| Language family: | Indo-European Germanic East Germanic Vandalic |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | gem | |
| ISO 639-3: | xvn
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Vandalic was a Germanic language probably closely related to the Gothic language. The Vandals, Hasdingi and Silingi established themselves in Gallaecia (Northern Portugal and Galicia) and in Southern Spain, following other Germanic and non-Germanic peoples (Visigoths, Alans and Suevi), before moving to North Africa in AD 429.
Very little is known about the Vandalic language beyond that it was East Germanic, closely related to Gothic. A small number of personal names of Vandalic origin in Spanish are known.
In the 16th, 18th and 19th century, it was believed, according to the Slovenes in the Prekmurje, Somogy and Vas, that they were descendants of the Vandals. In the Hungarian, Latin and other documents, the Prekmurian language (dialect of the Hungarian Slovenes and the Prekmurje) is termed Vandalic language.1
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