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Spread of four words for 'camel' across the Old World (sopuli.xyz)
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[–] Successful_Try543 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

East-Germanic languages, as e.g. the Gothic language, were spoken in todays Poland between the rivers Oder and Vistula and are a different (and extinct) branch of the Germanic languages than West-Germanic (German, Dutch, Frisian, English) or North-Germanic (Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese).