Gothic language

===J. R. R. Tolkien===
Several linguists have made use of Gothic as a creative language. The most famous example is "{{transliteration|got|[[Bagme Bloma]]}}" ("Flower of the Trees") by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]], part of ''[[Songs for the Philologists]]''. It was published privately in 1936 for Tolkien and his colleague [[E. V. Gordon]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Shippey|first1=Tom|title=The road to Middle-earth: Revised and Expanded edition|year=2003|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Company|isbn=0-618-25760-8|pages=26}}</ref>
 
Tolkien's use of Gothic is also known from a letter from 1965 to Zillah Sherring. When Sherring bought a copy of [[Thucydides]]' ''[[History of the Peloponnesian War]]'' in Salisbury, she found strange inscriptions in it; after she found his name in it, she wrote him a letter and asked him if the inscriptions were his, including the longest one on the back, which was in Gothic. In his reply to her he corrected some of the mistakes in the text; he wrote for example that {{transliteration|got|hundai}} should be {{transliteration|got|hunda}} and {{transliteration|got|þizo boko}} ("of those books"), which he suggested should be {{transliteration|got|þizos bokos}} ("of this book"). A semantic inaccuracy of the text which he mentioned himself is the use of {{transliteration|got|lisan}} for read, while this was {{transliteration|got|ussiggwan}}. Tolkien also made a [[calque]] of his own name in Gothic in the letter, which according to him should be {{transliteration|got|Ruginwaldus Dwalakoneis}}.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Bellet|first1=Bertrand|last2=Babut|first2=Benjamin|title=Apostil to Thucydides|url=http://www.jrrvf.com/~glaemscrafu/english/thucydide.html|website=Glæmscrafu}}</ref>

Gothic is also known to have served as the primary inspiration for Tolkien's [[invented language]], Taliska<ref>J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Comparative Tables", ''Parma Eldalamberon'' 19, p. 22</ref> which, in [[Tolkien's legendarium|his legendarium]], was the language spoken by the race of Men during the [[First Age]] before being displaced by another of his invented languages, [[Adûnaic]]. {{As of|2022|}}, Tolkien's Taliska grammar has not been published.
Description	What you type	What you get
Italic	''Italic text''	Italic text
Bold	'''Bold text'''	Bold text
Bold & italic	'''''Bold & italic text'''''	*Bold & italic text*
Description	What you type	What you get
Reference	Page text.<ref>[https://www.example.org/ Link text], additional text.</ref>	Page text.^[1]
Named reference	Page text.<ref name="test">[https://www.example.org/ Link text]</ref>	Page text.^[2]
Additional use of the same reference	Page text.<ref name="test" />	Page text.^[2]
Display references	<references />	↑ Link text, additional text. ↑ Link text