AHC/PC: Surviving East Germanic Populations

Not based off of what the wiki article shows as being Crimean Gothic. The only definitive examples it shows are those that follow closely to Gothic and have minor German influences. It merely states that as a possibility, Crimean Gothic could not be a direct descendant, but instead an adopted and adapted language.

I tend to be leary of wiki articles on minor languages, especially in this case, given it was for along time a very short article.

That said the article states that the primary documenter was Flemish and that their might have been some influence in his documentation (like finishing a word you don't have the full spelling of using your own similar language); as to Biblical Gothic, it simply states that they had some similarities but it's widely accepted they were unrelated.

While I don't have the research myself, I do know a fair bit about it since my boyfriend is really interested in the Crimean Goths.
 
The process of Slaviciziation comes as the result of the Invasion of the Huns. If the Huns aren't stopped then it doesn't much matter.
The Vistula Veneti, a Balto-Slavic tribe in Poland were in the process of Slavicization even before the Slavs expanded west and South perhaps the Slavs could expand only in the East of Oder Neisse line absorbing the Germanic tribes east of it after the assimilation was completed.
 

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What about if they had settled the Hungarian plain and modern Austria? I know the vacuum in Italy drew them in, but its seems like the Carpathians are an excellent shield from the East if they aren't destroyed by the Romans or Byzantines. By the time the Avars show up, the Ostrogoths, if they put down roots, could have help the passes against the nomadic peoples from the East I would think, but then they would have to avoid the Byzantine-Avar alliance from forming, which could put a lot of pressure on a Gothic kingdom in the Balkans and Carpathians simultaneously.
 
I tend to be leary of wiki articles on minor languages, especially in this case, given it was for along time a very short article.

That said the article states that the primary documenter was Flemish and that their might have been some influence in his documentation (like finishing a word you don't have the full spelling of using your own similar language); as to Biblical Gothic, it simply states that they had some similarities but it's widely accepted they were unrelated.

While I don't have the research myself, I do know a fair bit about it since my boyfriend is really interested in the Crimean Goths.
I forgot that little fact about you.
I tend to be wary of the article as well. But even still the Crimean Gothic population, though feasible, is on a smaller scale than I am looking for. Not just a minority, but a groupd capable of nation building.

The Vistula Veneti, a Balto-Slavic tribe in Poland were in the process of Slavicization even before the Slavs expanded west and South perhaps the Slavs could expand only in the East of Oder Neisse line absorbing the Germanic tribes east of it after the assimilation was completed.

What i was saying is that the Slavs filled the void left by the East Germanic Tribes as a result of the Hunnic Invasions. They existed prior to then, but only expanded in the void.
 
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