The are a group of extinct
Indo-European Languages in the
Germanic Family . The only East Germanic language of which texts are known is
Gothic ; other languages that are assumed to be East Germanic include
Vandalic ,
Burgundian , and
Crimean Gothic . Crimean Gothic is believed to have survived until the
18th Century .
Based on accounts by
Jordanes ,
Procopius ,
Paul The Deacon and others, linguistic evidence (see
Gothic Language ), placename evidence, and on archaeological evidence, it is believed that the
East Germanic Tribes , the speakers of the East Germanic languages, migrated from
Scandinavia to the area between the
Oder and the
Vistula rivers, ca
600 BC - ca
300 BC . In fact, the Scandinavian influence on
Pomerania and northern Poland from period III and onwards was so considerable that this region is sometimes included in the
Nordic Bronze Age culture (Dabrowski 1989:73).
There is a widely assumed connection between the Burgundians and the island of
Bornholm in
Denmark (
Old Norse : ''Borgundarholm'').
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