Greek script augmented with Latin and possibly Runic (questionable)
Gothic
ISO 15924
ISO 15924
Goth(206), Gothic
Unicode
Unicode alias
Gothic
Unicode range
U+10330–U+1034F
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History of the alphabet
Egyptian hieroglyphs 32nd c. BCE
Hieratic 32nd c. BCE
Demotic 7th c. BCE
Meroitic 3rd c. BCE
Proto-Sinaitic 19th c. BCE
Ugaritic 15th c. BCE
Ancient South Arabian 9th c. BCE
Geʽez c. 5th c. BCE
Phoenician 12th c. BCE
Hangul 1443
Thaana c. 1601
Adlam 1989
Phoenician 12th c. BCE
Paleo-Hebrew 10th c. BCE
Samaritan 6th c. BCE
Aramaic 8th c. BCE
Kharosthi 3rd c. BCE
Brahmi 3rd c. BCE
Brahmic family
Pallava 4th century
Cham 4th century
Dhives Akuru 6th century
Khmer 611
Tibetan 7th century
ʼPhags-pa 1269
Devanagari 10th century
Canadian Aboriginal 1840
Hebrew 3rd c. BCE
Square Aramaic 2007
Pahlavi 3rd c. BCE
Avestan 4th century
Palmyrene 2nd c. BCE
Nabataean 2nd c. BCE
Arabic 4th century
N'Ko 1949
Syriac 2nd c. BCE
Sogdian 2nd c. BCE
Old Turkic 6th century
Old Hungarian c. 650
Old Uyghur
Mongolian 1204
Mandaic 2nd century
Greek 8th c. BCE
Etruscan 8th c. BCE
Latin 7th c. BCE
Deseret 1854
Great Lakes Algonquian 19th century
Blackfoot 1888
Fraser 1915
Saanich 1978
Osage 2006
Runic 2nd century
Ogham 4th century
Lycian 5th c. BCE
Coptic 3rd century
Gothic 3rd century
Armenian 405
Caucasian Albanian c. 420
Georgian c. 430
Glagolitic 862
Cyrillic c. 940
Old Permic 1372
Libyco-Berber 10th c. BCE
Tifinagh 4th century
Neo-Tifinagh 1970
Paleohispanic 7th c. BCE
The Gothic alphabet is an alphabet used for writing the Gothic language. It was developed in the 4th century AD by Ulfilas (or Wulfila), a Gothic preacher of Cappadocian Greek descent, for the purpose of translating the Bible.[1]
The alphabet essentially uses uncial forms of the Greek alphabet, with a few additional letters to express Gothic phonology:
Latin F and G
a questionably Runic letter to distinguish the /w/ glide from vocalic /u/
the letter hwair (ƕ) to express the Gothic labiovelar.
^According to the testimony of the historians Philostorgius, Socrates of Constantinople and Sozomen. Cf. Streitberg (1910:20).
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