Salo David. Introduction to Gothic

Publication data n/a.Gothic is an Indo-European language, related to most of the major languages of Europe (except Finnish and Hungarian), and most closely related to the Germanic languages: English (including Scots), German (Low and High), Dutch, Frisian, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Icelandic, Faeroese.
Though it has its own unique points of development, it still stands very close to the reconstructed "Primitive Germanic" from which all these languages derive; and a knowledge of Gothic is practically indispensable to a historical study of the Germanic languages. A speaker of any Germanic language will find a very large number of cognate words in any Gothic text. Speakers of those languages will consequently find the vocabulary of Gothic very easy to learn.