Gothic is a Germanic language of the Eastern branch (now
extinct, it also included Vandalic and Burgundian) and the
oldest Germanic language to be attested in writing, except runic
inscriptions. It is the language of the Goths, a Germanic people
probably from Sweden originally, that later divided into
Wisigoths and Ostrogoths was to play a most important role
during the late Antiquity, and finally settled in Spain and
Italy respectively. Gothic is essentially known through a
translation of the Bible made by the bishop Wulfila in the 4th
century, of which important parts have come to us. It is the
first language that 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 Thirs Age like Vidumavi or
Vidugavia are of Gothic origin. Atta unsar - Pater noster Bagme
bloma - Flower of the trees, a poem by J. R. R. Tolkien in a
reconstructed form of Gothic. Quotations of John Ronald Reuel
Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien, Édouard Kloczko