Mariupol Gothic: Difference between revisions

|pronunciation    = 'ɦutiʃkə

'''Mariupol Gothic''' (natively '''Гутишка ''Gutiškă''''' ['ɦutiʃkə]) or '''Gothish''' is a Germanic language spoken by approximately 45,000 people on the northern coast of the Sea of Azov. It is an East Germanic language, closely related to Biblical Gothic, however the language is not a lineal descendant of Biblical Gothic. Nonetheless the speakers of Mariupol Gothic refer to themselves as "Goths" and their language still shares enough similarities with Gothic to be considered related. The language is critically endangered, with only a handful of native speakers remaining, with most acquiring the language as an L2.