Rus va ingliz tillari kafedrasi roman-german filologiyasiga kirish

Stage 3. The 
final stage 
3.1. The instructor summarizes 
the practical work, marks the 
answers of the students and 
makes an appraisal of the best 
answers. 
3.1. 
The 
students 
listen 
attentively. 
 
 
3.2. The students write down 

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3.2. The instructor sets the 
topics for the self work 
their individual tasks. 
 
 
 
 
Practical work 
1. The prehistory of the tribes or peoples who spoke Gothic language 
2. The borders of the linguistic space where the Gothic language was used 
3. The main features of the phonetic structure of the Gothic language 
4. The essential features of the grammatical structure of the Gothic language 
Literature recommended 
 
1. Kuldashev A. «Roman-Germanic Philology”. T., 2010. 
Lesson 5: Middle English. Modern English.
The main tendencies of the development of the German
and Roman languages. 
The Gothic language, now dead, was spoken by a group of Old Germanic 
tribes, known in history as Gothic tribes. Where the Goths first came from is not 
definitely known. There were stories told by their old men of a time when their 
people had dwelt far to the north, on the shores and islands of what is now Sweden. 
Then had come long, slow wanderings through the forests of western Russia, until 
they reached the shores of the Black Sea. In time they overran the once mighty 
Roman Empire to the south. The first of these northern barbarians to conquer Rome 
were the Visi- goths, or West Goths. Another tribal union of the Goths, the Ost-
rogoths, or East Goths, inhabited the Black Sea shores. For a time the Goths ruled a 
great kingdom north of the Danube river and the Black Sea. Then, in A.D. 315, the 
Huns, a savage people, swept into Europe from Asia. They conquered the Ostrogoths 
and forced the Visigoths to seek refuge across the Danube within the boundaries of 
the Roman Empire. In a battle fought near the city of Adrianople, in 378, the 

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Visigoths defeated and slew Emperor Valens. For a time they lived peaceably on 
Roman territory. In 395 they rose in rebellion under their ambitious young king 
Alaric and overran a large part of the Eastern Empire. In 410 Rome fell into the 
hands of the Visigoths. Alaric led the attack. 
Alaric's successors Led their people out of Italy and set up a powerful kingdom 
in Spain and southern Gaul. In the year 507 the Visigoths in Gaul were defeated by 
the Franks and were forced beyond the Pyrenees. For 200 years their kingdom in 
Spain flourished. It did not come to an end until 711, when the Moors crossed over 
from Africa and in a terrible eight-day battle destroyed the Visigothic kingdom. And 
that was the end of the Visigoths as an independent people. The Ostrogoths for a time 
formed part of the vast horde which followed the king of the Huns, Attila. They 
settled in the lands south of Vienna when the Hunnish kingdom fell apart. Their 
national hero was Theodoric the Great, a powerful and romantic figure who became 
king in 474. In 488 he invaded Italy. 
Theodore’s reign was one of the best but his kingdom was one of the great 
"might-have-beens" of history. He failed largely because no permanent union was 
affected between the barbarians and the Christian-Roman population. It was during 
his reign that many manuscripts of Gothic which have come down to us written. After 
his death in 526 the generals of the Eastern Empires reconquered Italy. After fighting 
a last battle near Mount Vesuvius in 553), the Ostrogoths marched out of Italy. They 
merged with other barbarian hordes north of the Alps and disappeared as a people 
from history.