User:Agilulf Anawas

Reconstructed Langobardic Language

The mysterious (west-Germanic) Langobardic language, was spoken by the Langobards in Sweden, Germany, Italy and Pannonia.

There are only a few scripts in that language since the Langobards mostly spoke, they started writing in Italy but using Vulgar Latin. The known words are in a sentence written with the "Elder Fuþark" runic system on the Schretzheim Capsule found in northern Bayern in Germany, which says "᛬ᚨᚱᛟᚷᛁᛊ᛫ᚨᚾᛞᛁ᛫ᚨᛚᚨᚷᚢᚦ᛫ᛚᛖᚢᛒᚨ᛫ᛞᛖᛞᚢᚾ᛬ "Arogis andi Alaguþ leuba dedun" which means "Arogis and Alaguth did love (had sex)" then some words are written (always using Fuþark) on two fibulas found in Hungary and others are written using Latin alphabet in documents written in the Latin language (adopted by the Langobards) since they included Langobardic lemmas in their vulgar Latin.

The reconstruction is based on known Langobardic words and on reconstructed ones using Old High German (Alemannic), a language so close to Langobardic (such as Suebic), Proto-West-Germanic, Proto-Germanic, German, and the tons of Italian words which derive from Langobardic.

It has a complicated and highly inflexed language with declensions and cases too (nominative, accusative, genitive and dative). It has three genders (masculine, neuter, and feminine) and hard verbs with a lot of irregularities.

You can join this discord server: https://discord.gg/YsHAMhnJ to help the language's reconstruction and see its developments!