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Gothic is the oldest known Germanic language, which is now extinct and left no descendants.

It is the first language that J.R.R. Tolkien studied for his own pleasure, and it may have given an impulsion in the first development of Qenya. Some names from Rhovanion in the Third Age like Vidumavi or Vidugavia are of Gothic origin.